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Breaking: Many feared dead as Kwankwaso, Kofa supporters clash in Kano
 
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019   ||   Nigeria,
 

Report reaching us from Kano has it that five people were feared dead at Bebeji Local Government Area of the state when supporters loyal to former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and former House Committee chairman on Appropriation, Alhaji Abdulmumuni Jibrin Kofa engaged in a bloody clash.

An eyewitness account has that trouble started when Senator Kwankwaso’s convoy while returning from campaign rally passed through an open space where Kofa and his supporters were praying for peaceful conduct of the general elections.

CEOAfrica gathered that Kwankwaso’s convoy disrupted the ongoing prayer session, which resulted in the bloody clash that reportedly led to the death of five people with many others from both sides injured.

According to an eyewitness account who pleaded anonymity,

“the long motorcade of Senator Kwankwaso which disrupted the prayers was actually the cause of the problem.

“It was, indeed, a bloody sight. The Kwankwaso people had provoked Kofa’s supporters who were conducting a peaceful prayer session for the peaceful conduct of the elections.

“I counted five dead bodies which were moved away on a police Hilux Van. Many vehicles were set ablaze; and buildings around the Kofa neighbourhood were also burnt.”

 

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