Gunmen stormed the home of Kaduna State Labour Party (LP) House of Representatives candidate for Lere Federal Constituency, Suleiman Tambaya, on Friday night, killing two people.
The event happened around 10:00 p.m. at Tambaya’s home in Gure village, Lere Local Government Area, while he was gone for a political conference in Kaduna, the state capital.
The attempted assassination of the Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate comes just three months after gunmen attacked and killed the party’s women leader, Mrs Victoria Chimtex, in her home in the state’s Kaura Local Government Area in November 2022.
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Remember that the gunmen who killed the state’s Labour Party women’s leader also shot her husband in the leg?
However, no arrests have been made in relation to Victoria’s murderers to date.
Meanwhile, Tambaya added that if it hadn’t been for divine intervention and the quick response of members of the community and local vigilantes, the attempted assassination on him would have been a “different narrative by now.”
According to the article, Tambaya also stated that the police in Lere responded to the distress call.
“I was planning to go home on Friday but I spoke to our governorship candidate and he asked me to come and see him. That was when I diverted and came to Kaduna.
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“At about 10:00 pm on Friday, some seven armed men came to my house in the village (Gure), asking about my whereabouts and that they said I am supposed to be home.
“Some young men in my house were able to escape and raised an alarm; members of the community came and the vigilante too came out and confronted them. But unfortunately, in the process, gunmen killed two of our boys.
“You know the community has a vigilante team and immediately they responded but in the process, the gunmen shot two of our boys. One of the boys died on the spot while the other one died at the hospital.
“We reported the case to the Divisional Police Officer and he promptly mobilise personnel to the scene of the incident,” Tambaya explained.
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However, as of the time of posting this story, neither the Kaduna State Police Command nor the state government has issued an official statement on the event, since the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mohammad Jalige, had not returned phone calls.
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