PDP accuses APC supporters of burning Jonathan’scampaign vehicles

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign
Organisation has alleged that supporters of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) were behind weekend burning of
President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign buses at Zololo
Junction along Bauchi Road in Jos North North Local Govern­
ment Area of Plateau State.
According to reports, two buses belonging to Goodluck
Jonathan’s campaign were torched by youths in Jos who
asked the occupants to disembark from the vehicles before
setting them on fire.
But Director of Media and Publicity of the President Goodluck
Jonathan’s Campaign Organization, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,
in a statement yesterday alleged that the APC supporters
were responsible and called on the APC presidential candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari, to call them to order and ensure
a violence-free election.
Reacting, Buhari in a statement last night by his Director on
Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, dismissed the
allegation of the PDP that his supporters were responsible for
burning of two buses belonging to Jonathan campaign
organisation in Jos, Plateau State at the weekend.
The APC presidential candidate said disenchanted PDP
chieftains who lost out in the recently rigged primaries of the
ruling party were responsible.
The former aviation minister said: “It is on record that General
Buhari’s utterances since 2011 have fueled violence especially
the post-election violence in parts of the North which claimed
the lives of many corps members who were deployed as ad-
hoc staff members for that year’s election.
“It is sad that up till now, General Buhari has refused to
apologize to the Nigerian people for that barbaric and
shameful incident or show any remorse for the actions of his
supporters. He could not even bring himself to tender an
apology to the families of those young corps members that
were hacked to death and murdered in cold blood by his
agents,” he said.