PDP youths behind attack on Jonathan, not APC - Yuguda

The Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda, on Saturday disclosed that those who attacked President Goodluck Jonathan in the state during the week were youths who belong to the Peoples Democratic Party and not those of the All Progressives Congress as reported in the media. Yuguda said Thursday's attack was indeed carried out by youths who belong to the President's party, the PDP. The campaign train of Jonathan for the February 14, 2015 presidential election was attacked twice in Bauchi on Thursday. The first attack was carried out inside the venue of the campaign, with dignitaries pelted with shoes and sachets of pure water. One of those seriously affected was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed. A second attack was carried out as the President's convoy drove out of the rally venue. Six operatives of the Department of State Services, popularly called Body Guards, were injured and hospitalised in the attack. The broom-wielding youths first blocked the motorcade of the President on Nasarawa Street as it made its way to the palace of the Emir of Bauchi, where Jonathan and his team were going to pay homage. But Yuguda in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said some PDP leaders in the state who were not pleased with the way the party was being run from its national headquarters in Abuja, organised the attack.