A former Director of Protocol in the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and Zamfara State governorship aspirant, Alhaji Sagir Hamidu, is dead.
Reports said that Sagir was shot dead on Sunday on Kaduna-Abuja road by suspected bandits.
Other passengers, according to a source close to the development, might have been abducted in the operation near Katari village on Abuja-Kaduna expressway.
Vehicles were seen either abandoned or parked beside the road between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Fears were rife that the passengers ir other commuters were either kidnapped or fled into the bush
Hamidu, according to reports, was the Head of Protocol when Dr Ibrahim Modibbo was the Minister of Federal Capital Territory.
Meanwhile a family source has confirmed the killing of Hamidu to a reporter of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
NAN was told by the deceased’s elder brother, Kabiru Hamidu, that Sagir was killed near Abuja while he was returning from the weekend.
Kabiru, who said the family members were still gathering details of what happened from the authorities and possible witnesses explained that details could only be made available by Monday.
NAN reports that Sagir Hamidu, an Abuja-based businessman and former director in the federal civil service, aspired for the governorship of Zamfara on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011 but lost at the party’s primary election.
He later defected to the APC and vied for the governorship position in 2019 but was allegedly short-changed by the former governor Abdulaziz Yari-led APC in the state from where he joined seven other aspirants to form the G-8 which protested and fought the Yari group up to the Supreme Court.
Hamida returned to the Yari faction of the APC in the state with the defection of the state governor, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, from the PDP to the APC to fight Matawalle’s leadership of the party in the state, a position he held till he was killed.
Also speaking on the development, the Director-General of Media to the governor, Malam Yusuf Idris, told NAN that the governor received the information with shock.
“I can tell you, my principal is still in shock since the news was broken to him that one of the illustrious sons of the state was killed.
“We shall furnish you with additional information tomorrow when we get more details because right now, the governor is in Abuja attending a crucial meeting,” Idris said. (NAN)
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