Zamfara LG chair escapes mob assault at APC senatorial main

There was chaos Monday in Kaura Namoda native authorities space of Zamfara state through the All Progressives Congress (APC) contemporary main election for the Zamfara North senatorial district seat.

The chairman of Kaura Namoda native authorities council, Hon. Mannir Haidara, narrowly escaped  lynching when he was attacked by indignant supporters of one of many contestants, Senator Tijjani Yahaya Kaura.

Eyewitnesses mentioned disaster erupted on the venue of the first election between supporters of  the incumbent senator representing Zamfara North, Senator Kaura, and his challenger, Senator Tijjani OD, when the council chairman, Hon. M. Haidara, mounted the rostrum and brazenly canvassed for vote for the incumbent Senator Ya’u.

He reportedly urged the youths and delegates current to vote for Senator Ya’u to proceed in workplace.

His remark reportedly infuriated supporters of Tijjani OD, who felt the chairman, being a frontrunner of all, ought to have remained impartial within the contest.

Angry youths instantly began hurling insults on the chairman and later resorted to throwing stones and different objects at him, inflicting pandemonium on the venue.

It took the intervention of safety operatives who have been on floor to rescue Hon. Haidara from the mob.

He was whisked away from the venue even because the indignant crowd continued to chase him.

Efforts to get an official assertion from Hon. Haidara and the Zamfara state APC chapter proved abortive.