Drama as thug attacks journalist inside Adamawa govt house, reason revealed

Hamidu Mukhtari, a suspected political thug popularly known as Dogo, did the unthinkable on Thursday, August 31st.

Daily Trust reported that the thug molested a journalist inside the Adamawa State government House in Yola.

The journalist, Ibrahim Mista Ali, was said to have been attacked after criticising the state governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.

Ali was on official duty to cover a press briefing by the secretary to the government, Awwal Tukur, when he was manhandled by Dogo, who had on two previous occasions threatened to deal with him for publishing unfavorable materials.

“He slapped me, punched me twice and then dragged me by the neck in the presence of security personnel who then intervened and pleaded with him to release me. He had threatened to deal with me for covering the opposition”, the journalist stated.

In another development, The Niger State Police Command has reacted to a recent development threatening Governor Mohammed Umar Bago's supreme powers in the state.

The spokesman for the command, Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement on Friday, August 25, disclosed that no bandit is a “governor” in the state.

The police made this assertion while reacting to the media reports claiming that a bandit leader, Dogo Geide, had announced himself to be the governor of Niger state.