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Tension mounted in
Nasarawa State as supporters of the gubernatorial candidate of the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Umaru Tanko al-Makura,
threatened to protest his arrest by the state government. The
commissioner of police for the state command, Wilfred Ebute, had
ordered the arrests following the stoning of the incumbent governor
Aliyu Akwe Domad’s convoy with President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice
as they were on their way to visit the Emir of Lafia, Isah Mustapha
Agwai during the flag-off of its campaign yesterday.

Addressing
journalists at an emergency press conference at the CPC campaign
office, the director-general of the campaign party, Musa Illu said that
early on Tuesday morning, Mr. Al-Makura was invited by the
inspector-general of police, Hafis Rimgim, through the commissioner of
police to his office in order to discuss the stoning incident.

According to Mr.
Illu, the opposition party had deliberately shut down its party office
for the day out of respect for Mr. Jonathan. He expressed his dismay
over the attitude of the state government, accusing the governorship
candidate of the CPC of instigating his supporters to destroy
billboards with images of the incumbent governor as well as stoning the
presidential convoy,

“As far as I am
concerned, those are things that anybody can do, it is not necessarily
somebody from CPC,” he said. “We know what CPC is, we came from there,
we know the incidents that are happening in PDP.”

Next reports that the Tanko Al-Makura has also invited to Abuja by
the inspector general of police Mr. Hafis Rimgim through the
commissioner of police for investigations in connection with the
incident that took placed yesterday in Lafia the state capital.