Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso Stoned By His Supporters After He Arrived In Kogi

Alh. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate for the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), was jeered on Wednesday in Kogi State over his effort to win the support of late Prince Abubakar Audu’s loyalists.

On his visit to Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, Kwakwaso was fired with stones and sachet water.

After visiting the late Prince Abubakar Audu’s country estate in Ogbonicha, the NNPP presidential candidate returned to Lokoja and was met with hostility by a faction of the NNPP because they believed the presidential candidate gave the late Prince Audu’s supporters who had recently defected to the NNPP in the state too much attention.

After waiting in Lokoja for several hours, some of the members complained to journalists that the presidential candidate had abandoned them in favour of Audu’s supporters, who they claimed were still APC members (APC).

The furious supporters yelled against the NNPP presidential candidate after he finally arrived in a motorcade with some supporters.

Security guards had to struggle to get him to a well-known hotel in the middle of the city where he could be safe.

The behaviour of the supporters was justified as “normal in politics” by a media adviser to Kwankwaso who goes by the name Musa Yunusa and said that Kogi remains the home of the NNPP presidential candidate.