The motorcade of President Goodluck Jonathan was for the umpteen times pelted with stones by some aggrieved youths in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Jonathan was in the city in continuation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential rally when his convoy accosted the angry mobs on Thursday.
Before the latest assault on his campaign team, the President’s motorcade had been stoned in Katsina and Bauchi states when he went to seek votes for the people of the States for his re-election bid.
Reports have it that the windscreens and windows of some of the vehicles on the convoy were destroyed before security operatives used teargas and horsewhips to disperse the youths.
Eye witnesses to the incident told Punch that trouble started when the President’s convoy was going to the palace of the Emir of Muri, Abass Tafida, from the airport.
According to one of them, “Security agents ensured that people were moved very far from the main but at a point, the convoy got to a particular village where the youths became restive.
“Before we knew what was happening, they started stoning the convoy.”
Though it could not be ascertained if anyone in the convoy was hurt or any arrests made, Jonathan, who was said to be unruffled by the assault, used the opportunity of his visit to the state to meet with ailing Governor, Danbaba Suntai.
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