Governor Yuguda’s revelations on the attack on Jonathan shock The Presidency

Revelations by Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda on the stoning of President Goodluck Jonathan in the state during a campaign rally by the PDP was said to have shocked the Presidency and the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja.

Yuguda, a PDP governor, in an interview with the BBC Hausa service, said that the stoning and the attack on the President were carried out by members of Jonathan's own party, the PDP.

Before now, the Presidency and the PDP had accused the opposition All Progressives Congress of being the mastermind of the attack.
In spite of Governor Yuguda's revelation, Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali, and the Presidential Campaign Office, have insisted that the attack was carried out by APC.

But Yuguda, a member of the National Executive Committee of the PDP, insisted those who organised the youths that threw stones and pelted Jonathan with sachet water, were members of PDP from Abuja.

The governor said, "I am sure and let the world know that the people who did this thing were PDP members and those politicians in Abuja were the ones behind it; they were not APC members.

"They found these youths on the road and gave them brooms and satchets of water and they instructed them that when the President was passing they should raise the brooms and throw the satchets of water at him.

"They did that so that the President would think that Isa Yuguda is against him. They have been telling him in Abuja that we are not supporting him. They did that to show the President that Isa Yuguda is nothing in Bauchi, to show that despite being an indigene of Bauchi, Isa Yuguda could not be respected with his guests in Bauchi."