Hoodlums attack Atiku’s campaign office in Ebonyi, destroy billboards
Hoodlums on Thursday night attacked the campaign office of Friends of Atiku in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital and destroyed massive billboards in front of the office.
Friends of Atiku is a support group rooting for the election of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the next president of Nigeria.
The hoodlums attacked the group’s office along mile 50, Abakaliki the state capital.
One of the leaders of the group in the state and Onicha local Government Coordinator of the group, Comrade Nnamdi Ogbonnaya Onu, condemned the development, describing it as despicable.
Onu, while addressing journalists at the office, said they noticed suspicious movement of some persons around the office in the evening before the campaign billboard was destroyed.
He however called on the supporters of the former Vice President to remain calm and law abiding as according to him, the matter was being investigated by security agents.
“This morning as early as 5:30 am, we started getting calls from people living around our campaign office here at mile 50 Abakaliki that it has been attacked by some hoodlums. We rushed here and discovered that some of our billboards have been damaged by the hoodlums.
“We are surprised because we the Friends of Atiku are law abiding people because we are league of people; men and women, youths, the old and young in Nigeria who have identified with the wind of ‘let’s get Nigeria working again’ that started in last couple of months.
“To discover that some faceless individuals will take it upon themselves to attack us in this manner is something we are not going to take. In as much as we are not going to accuse anybody, we believe that campaign should be issued based.
“We know that Ebonyi is a PDP state and no reasonable person can encourage anybody to destroy our presidential candidate’s billboards.
“What has happened is something highly despicable for anybody to think that destroying billboards is a way of enhancing his/her political popularity. We want to appeal to everybody to be steadfast in their support to our presidential candidate,” he said.
