The senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on School Agriculture, Dr. Baraka Sani escaped death by a dint of luck yesterday.Punch reports that Dr. Baraka Sani, on Saturday in Kano escaped death from the hands of suspected political thugs, who disallowed her from voting. The incident which happened at Jigriya Ward in Dakatar Quarters, Nasarrwa area of Kano State, saw political thugs pulling missiles at Baraka, preventing her, when she attempted to cast her vote.
An eyewitness made it known that the thugs on sighting Baraka started chanting: “Ba muayi, ba zaki ye zabe ba,” meaning, “We are not with you and will not allow you to vote.”
The fracas which went on for over 10 minutes got two of Baraka’s aides injured and rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention. The thugs were also said to have thrown pebbles at the President’s aide until a good Samaritan came to her rescue, as she was shielded and escorted from the scene of the incident to a waiting black Honda Pilot Jeep, which zoomed off immediately.
Sani however rushed back home and mobilized a combined team of security operatives, comprising the Army, Air Force, Directorate of State Security and the Police, who accompanied her to the polling unit where she eventually cast her vote amidst tight security. While narrating her ordeal, Sani asked, “Is that the kind of change Nigerians are yearning for, where Nigerians would be denied their constitutional right? Is this the kind of change that women will be summoned before the ICC?
“Is this the kind of change that the opposition is denigrating women that they will never again participate in the political process, limiting their freedom of expression, freedom and constitutional right?”
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