There was palpable tension as the president’s convoy heading to the Bauchi Emir’s palace drove past the Nasarawa area road, where some supporters of Buhari, brandishing brooms, welcomed the president with chants of ‘Sai Buhari’ even as some could be heard calling President Jonathan ‘arna’ (in Hausa meaning an unbeliever).
With the president in the Motorcade were Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed; Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, ministers, other top chieftains of the PDP among others.
Also, along Ran road, some irate youths chanting ‘Sai Buhari’, disrupted business activities as shop owners in the area had to hurriedly lock their business premises for fear of the unknown.
At the venue of the event, Ibrahim Babangida Square, Bauchi, the youths who had, before the arrival of President Jonathan and his entourage, chanted solidarity songs for the president and the PDP, marched round the venue with their drums and placards with the president’s picture, became wild during the programme, pelting dignitaries at the stand with stones.

.jpg)







