Just in: Peter Obi was attacked by hoodlums in Kastina State.

The Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council says the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was attacked by hoodlums in Katsina state on Monday, January 23.

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NewsReport recalls that Obi was in Katsina state on Monday to woo the voters in President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state.

Source: Twitter He promised the people of the northern state he would fix insecurity if elected as president.

In a statement released on Tuesday, January 24, Diran Onifade, Head of Media, Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council, said, that the attack on Obi and his campaign team is condemnable, Daily Trust reported.

Onifade said the LP flagbearer had met with women in a town hall and then held a hugely successful rally at the Muhammad Dikko Stadium.

“However, on his way to the airport, hoodlums attacked the car our candidate was riding in with heavy stones from his drivers’ side causing substantial damage to the vehicle.

“To the glory of God, Mr Obi and other occupants of the car were unhurt. Subsequently another set of thugs also threw stones outside the stadium which damaged several vehicles including that of our official stage crew,” Onifade said.

Onifade said the campaign team suspected that the attacks may have been premeditated at the behest of desperate politicians who had thought Obi could not measure up to their electoral strength in the northwest but were now shocked by the show of force of the “Obidient movement”

in the region. He urged security agencies to investigate the attacks to forestall future occurrences. Peter Obi throws powerful jabs at Atiku, Tinubu