APC office set ablaze in Bauchi

Youths suspected to be supporters of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) yesterday set ablaze the campaign office of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate
Barrister Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar in retaliation for the
attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and vandalization of
his billboards and posters.
It was learnt that some hired youths attacked and vandalised
the Bauchi South Senatorial District campaign office of Bar­
rister Abubakar located on Kobi Street at 2am when people
were still sleeping.
A resident of the area who craved anonymity said: “We woke
up and saw the office on fire and all the relevant things in the
office had already been burnt and there was nothing we could
do at that time to save the situation. We did not envisage
that any reasonable person could do such a thing.”
Some other residents said they saw some persons stormed
the office in three Hilux and set it ablaze and thereafter drove
out while the flame blazed for over two hours because of the
documents in the office.
Barrister Abubakar described the incident as unfortunate,
barbaric and undemocratic pointing accusing fingers at
supporters of PDP. He said APC is a peaceful party, deter­
mined to clinch the state governorship seat even as he
warned those behind the burning of his campaign to desist
while he appealed to the security agencies to fish out the
perpetrators.
“We in APC, we are not violent people and we are guided by
the simple principle of issue based campaign and not
violence. Our peaceful conduct is already giving us an edge
over our opponents and we can never resort to violence at any
point of our campaign”, he added.