Suspected hoodlums on Wednesday pelted the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, with sachets of water while on a visit to Kogi State.
Kwankwaso was in Lokoja, the state capital to inaugurate the party’s secretariat and his campaign offices.
He had visited Ogbonicha, the country home of late Prince Abubakar Audu, and returned to Lokoja to a hostile reception.
The NNPP presidential candidate who arrived in a motorcade with few supporters, was shouted down by angry supporters.
On getting to a popular hotel where he was meant to address his supporters, suspected hoodlums invaded the venue and started throwing sachets of water at the candidate.
He was accused of trying to hide under the canopy of the late ex-governor to woo supporters of the All Progressives Congress.
Some of the members who spoke to journalists, lamented that having waited since the early hours in Lokoja, the presidential candidate abandoned them for Audu’s loyalists whom they claimed are still members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
A media aide of the presidential candidate, who identified himself as Musa Yunusa, described the action of the supporters as normal in politics, describing Kogi as home to Kwankwaso.
