‘Banditry in uniform’ — ADC-PCC gives Sokoto security agencies 24 hours over attack on candidate

The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council, ADC-PCC, has fixed information agencies successful Sokoto State 24 hours to enactment against operatives of the Sokoto Marshals accused of attacking its governorship candidate, Munir Dan Iya.

The assembly said Dan Iya was attacked on the Sokoto Airport Road, portion returning to the metropolis aft accompanying erstwhile politician Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

In a connection shared connected X and signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, Director of Media and Publicity of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, ADC-PCC, immoderate operatives vandalised vehicles successful Dan Iya’s convoy, including his idiosyncratic SUV.

The ADC further claimed that 2 Department of State Services, DSS, unit attached to Dan Iya were abducted during the incident.

The assembly besides alleged that Sokoto Marshals had been harassing motorists and targeting vehicles displaying ADC posters and enactment symbols astatine antithetic gates into the metropolis.

According to the statement, Dan Iya had reported the incidental to the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police.

The ADC-PCC accused the state-owned information outfit of being utilized to intimidate absorption members, describing the alleged behaviour arsenic a menace to antiauthoritarian freedoms.

“This is not governance. It is banditry successful uniform, and it indispensable n...