Violence: Kaduna pdp counts losses

As the 24-hour curfew earlier imposed on Kaduna State was relaxed on Wednesday, the state chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party counted its losses in the post-election violence that erupted in the state on Monday.

Prominent PDP leaders in the state who lost valuable personal property and business premises to the violence include the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Alhaji Hassan Jumare, and the Chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria and ASD Motors, Alhaji Sani Dauda. Others included serving commissioners in the state.

The Kaduna State PDP also alleged in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Wusono, that its members were the target of the perpetrators of Monday’s violence in the state.

The party condemned the alleged deliberate destruction of lives and property of innocent citizens in the state by suspected thugs during the crisis. The party said, “All emerging signs from the crisis validate our assertions that PDP members in Kaduna State and their followers were deliberately targeted from the outset of the crisis.

“Evidence of this can be got from the burning in Zaria of the houses of Ambassador Sule Buba, the Director General of the Yakowa-Nakowa Campaign Organisation; Alhaji Habibu Dobani, the Zone One Chairman of the PDP and the Zaria home of Dauda.

“Also, two houses in Zaria and Makarfi belonging to Jumare and all his filling stations were burnt.

“Other houses burnt include those belonging to Alhaji Rabiu Jafaru, Commissioner for Lands and Survey; Hajia Halima Labbo, Commissioner for Special Duties; Alhaji Shehu Giant, former chairman of Kaduna North Local Government; Sadaunan Badarawa and Tambuwal, among others.”

The PDP, however, urged all its members in the state “to shun any act of further provocation by our opponents and continue to be law abiding citizens.”