A group of thugs believed to be hired assassins had on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 strangulated to death a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth leader in Tunruku Ward of Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna State.
The deceased identified as Saidu Abdullahi was headed to a PDP stakeholders’ meeting at the Arewa Hall Kaduna metropolis before the incident happened.
According to eyewitnesses, the hired killers ambushed Abdullahi and strangulated him to death with a cable tied to his neck, after they had dragged him along a bush path for some distance.
Reacting to the incident, the state PDP Public Relations Officer (PRO ), Ibrahim Mansur, told journalists that the party has been thrown into mourning as the deceased was on his way to attend the party’s meeting.
“We the PDP members are sad and sorrowful about the killing of our youth leader, Saidu Abdullahi from Igabi local government area.
“In fact, he was coming to attend our stakeholders meeting this morning in Kaduna when some unidentified killers waylaid him and chained his neck with cable and strangulated to death.”
However, the spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Abubakar Zubairu said the command was yet to get any information regarding the incident, but promised to contact the Divisional Police Officers (DPO) in the area.
