Goje Petitions IG over Alleged Assassination Attempt on Him

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

A former Governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, over alleged assassination attempt on his life and his personal Assistant, Adamu Manga by the Aide-De-Camp and Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the Gombe State Governor, SP Zulaidaini Abba and Sani Bajoga respectively.

The ranking Senator, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, in a four-page petition entitled, “Attempt to Assassinate Senator Muhammad Danjuma Goje and his personal Assistant, Adamu Manga by AP/No:118814 Zulaidaini Abba and AP No:57675, Sani Adamu Bajoga, the ADC and CSO to the governor of Gombe State respectively and the unprovoked assault and damages on the persons and vehicles of his admirers in Gombe”, dated November 8, 2021 and written by his lawyer, V C Nwadike Esq asked the Inspector General of Police to investigate the matter with aim of bringing the affected officers involved to justice by prosecuting them after disciplinary action might have been taken against
them.

The petition, copies of which were sent to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Director-General of the Department of State Services and Gombe State Commissioner of Police, read in part:

“We are a firm of legal practitioner and our services have been sought and retained by Senator Danjuma Goje, the Senator representing Gombe central in the National Assembly, whom we shall hereinafter referred to as our client.

“Our client speaking from a state of shock and disbelief arising from the unprovoked attempt to Assassinate him, his personal Assistant and some of his admirers by the ADC and CSO to the governor of Gombe state, has informed us and we are verily believe as follows.

“That on the 5th day of November , 2021, our client came into Gombe through the Gombe International Airport at about 10:30 hours, to attend the wedding ceremony of his relative and some of his constituent supporters and admirers came to the airport to welcome and accompany him home.

“On their way to our client’s home, his personal Assistant and others with them were brutally attacked with guns, cutlass and other dangerous weapons by SP Zulaidaini Abba and Sani Bajoga, CSO to the governor of Gombe state.

“It was by whiskers and the Grace of Allah that our client escaped death, but his personal Assistant was not lucky as he was seriously injured by the attackers with cutlasses.

“At a place near the Gombe International Airport Conference Center, Bauchi-Gombe federal highway, ADC and CSO leading Kawu Keep, Sanusi Attacker, Danjuma Skade and many others came with several vehicles belonging to the government house and numerous thugs behind them.

“The officers with aid of the Vehicles of the government, blocked the highway, stopped the movement of our client and those with him for hours. The ADC and the CSO commanded the numerous thugs bearing matches, short axes, knives, different shaped hard and dried sticks hitherto shielded by them, to attack our client and those with him.

“Our client was fortunate not to be killed but his personal Assistant, Adamu Manga in the same vehicle with our client received several matchet cuts aimed at shoulder level under the supposition that our client was the one being macheted.

“In course of the unleashed attacks on our client and those with him, persons (including one Isah Abdullahi M of Pantami Quarters Gombe) were killed; numerous vehicles were burnt and damaged.

“It took the intervention of the Minister of Police Affairs, Attorney General of the Federation and your good self (who upon being contacted by our client while under duress),called the Commissioner of Police Gombe State to direct ADC and CSO to clean the blockage at the international conference centre location of the Bauchi-Gombe federal highway for our client to attempt to rush the injured to the hospital.”