See Picture: Bomb blast after Jonathan’s presidential rally in Gombe.

A blast ripped through a car park outside a
stadium where President Goodluck Jonathan had
addressed a re-election campaign rally on
Monday, minutes after he left, witnesses said.
Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in Gombe,
said the explosion happened at 3:10 pm just three
minutes after Jonathan’s departure.
A local reporter added: “The president had just
passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind
his convoy when the explosion happened… just
100 metres (yards) from the bus we were driving
in.”