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By Umar Adam Sokoto
A yet to be identified bandits killed the Treasurer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Yabo Local Government Chapter, Alhaji Nafi’u Tambari Dagawa in Sokoto South Senatorial District.
Local source in the area said the bandit who attacked stormed the village around 2am on Friday and killed the Treasurer at his resident in Dagawa community on that fateful night.
The eye witness account also revealed that the insurgents abducts married couples of husband and his wife for money ransom.
The sources said that although the attacks was the first of its kind in the area but many people sustained various degree of gun shot as a result of the attacked.
Late Dagawa who was popular for philanthropist gesture especially to the less privileged and other community members in area.
Some of the community members expressed sad over the incident and described the death of the Treasurer as unfortunate due to his philanthropist contributions to people in the area in respect of political inclination.
PDP supporters and other people attended the victim’s burial prayers on Saturday at his home town Dagawa village in Yabo local government area.
Sokoto South Senatorial zone was the only area witnessing less insurgency attacks in the state.
The PDP spokes person in the state Alhaji Hassan Sahabi Sanyinnawal confirmed the incident.