Jonathan, Buhari cancel campaigns in Damaturu, Maiduguri

ABUJA — The presidential rally of the Peoples
Democratic Party scheduled to hold in Damaturu,
Yobe State has been cancelled.
Jonathan-Buhari
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, also cancelled his scheduled
campaign trip to Maiduguri for undisclosed
reasons without making his new date for the trip
public.
The rally which was supposed to hold after a
similar meeting in Gombe was however called off
at the last minute.
Though no reason was given for the cancellation,
Vanguard gathered that the rally was shelved due
to unfavourable security report about the proposed
rally.
An advanced team of the president’s campaign
delegation was already in Damaturu for the rally
before they were informed that it had been
shelved.
Yobe, which shares border with Borno State, is the
birth place of the late leader of the Boko Haram
sect, Ibrahim Yusuf, who was killed in 2009.
Jonathan’s campaign train had come under
increasing attacks from hoodlums in the northern
parts of the country, with his convoy being pelted
with sachet water and stones in Bauchi.