The ongoing renewed plot by the Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers in the Nasarawa House of Assembly to impeach Governor Tanko Al-Makura assumed a bloody dimension as supporters People Democratic Party supporters and their All Progressives Congress counterparts clashed, killing about four persons.
Sources said that the fight broke out on Tuesday when the PDP youths were accompanying a member of the state House of Assembly, Sidi Bako, to his country home at Obi town.
The PDP youths, it was gathered, decided to accompany the lawmaker because of the fear that he might be attacked by the APC youths.
It was also learnt that the fight ensued when an Eggon man was allegedly cut with a machete by Gwandara youths who converged on Obi town waiting to attack Bako.
An eyewitness said that the Eggon man, who almost lost one of his hands, went to mobilize his kinsmen, who allegedly carried out a reprisal attack on the Gwandara people at their farmland and killed four of them.
It was learnt that the people of Dedere, who are of Gwandara extraction, were not happy with Bako because he is one of the 20 PDP lawmakers pushing for Al-Makura’s impeachment.
On the contrary, the Eggon people are strongly supporting the lawmaker’s involvement in the impeachment plot against Al-Makura.
When contacted the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ismaila Numan, an Assistant Superintended of Police, said that the command had so far recovered four corpses.
Numan added that the clash was politically motivated and that the police had already restored normalcy to the area, stressing that those found guilty would be brought to face the full wroth of the law.
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