Politics
PDP Guber Candidate’s Campaign Office Demolished
started at about 10.35a.m
The campaign office of a gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been demolished in parts.
SocietyNow.Ng gathered that the campaign office of Muhammad Jibrin Barde, the PDP gubernatorial candidate in Gombe state was demolished in parts on August 30, 2022.
The demolition exercise was carried out by the Gombe State Urban Planning and Development Authority (GOSUPDA).
According to Group Captain Peter Bitrus Bilal (Retd, the Special Adviser to the Gombe state governor on Development Control and Enforcement the demolition was carried out because of the location of the campaign office.
The Special Adviser explained that the campaign office is erected in front of the presidential lodge on a road that the governor plies every day and this can not be condoned.
Bilal further disclosed that the gubernatorial campaign office was set up under a false premise insisting that approval was given to Gombe Good Leadership Association to put up a temporary structure at the place but a permanent structure was erected and converted to the campaign office of an opposition party.
Gombe state is under the control of Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Added information has it that the demolition exercise at the Liberty Junction, along Government House Road, GRA campaign office of the PDP gubernatorial candidate started at about 10.35a.m and suffered a bit of resistance from Barde’s supporters – with the use of tear gas and injuries recorded – before it was carried out.
The PDP candidate tagged the development “political” and “assault on democracy”.
