Lifestyle Nigeria reports that the Borno state government has sealed off the state headquarters of the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
The party’s headquarters alongside some of its offices were sealed by the Borno State Urban Development Management Board on Thursday.
Welfare: People want to serve Nigeria but they also have to eat, says Sanusi while addressing newsmen in Maiduguri.
He added that the party’s Central Senatorial Candidate, Hon Attom Muhammad Maigira, was arrested after he honored a police invitation and currently behind the bar.
He said the policemen were deployed to the Party Secretariats along Abbaganaram and Gidan Maradara areas to prevent the party faithful from accessing their offices.
Maigira also said he had been arrested.
“When I got the information that police have sealed our secretariat I rush to find out the reason for their presence. As I am talking to you they have arrested me and did not explain this reason for my arrest,” he said.
Our correspondent who visited the Abbagannaram junction at exactly 11:30am sited dozens of anti-riot policemen and civilians joint task force (CJTF) stationed there with patrol vehicles.
Borno State Police Public Relation Officer, ASP Sani Kamilu Muhammed, has declined to pick several calls and did not reply text message sent to him at the time of filling this report.