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SaharaReporters contacted the phone number with which the bandits called to confirm the claim. A man, who spoke with Fulani accent, said they threatened to attack the three villages as reprisal. ndits who have been wreaking havoc in Zamfara State have threatened to burn down three more communities in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State, except the community disbands their vigilante groups. The bandits contacted a resident of Bakenawa community, whose identity is hidden for his safety, to deliver the threat on Monday. Bakenawa is a few kilometres away from Ruwan Bore, where the elder sister of Ade Marafa, the senator representing Zamfara Central, was killed on last week. According to the resident, when the bandits called him, he lied that he was not a resident of Bakenawa, but the bandits gave details of his family members to prove to him that they know him well. Explaining how the bandits could have got his number, he said they had raided the village a few days

Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has taken his campaign to Port Harcourt in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria. The venue of the rally, the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Igwuruta is filled with party supporters. Present at the rally is the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, Senator Ben Bruce and other chieftains of the PDP.

Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Monday was booed and stoned at the party’s presidential campaign rally Ogun State. Oshiomhole was pelted with different objects by some of the people present at the rally when he mentioned the name of the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Dapo Abiodun while addressing the crowd. It took the intervention of the incumbent state governor Ibikunle Amosun to pacify the irate crowd. He pleaded with them to respect the presence of President Muhammadu Buhari The Ogun State APC gubernatorial primaries were marred with controversies with Amosun seeking to install his successor but the national headquarters opted for another candidate from a congress conducted by the National Working Committee. Amosun openly supports Adekunle Akinlade of Allied Peoples Movement (APM) for the gubernatorial elections in Ogun State while APC have Dapo Abiodun on their ballot. Akinlade was declared the winner in