At lesast five persons have been killed in Wukari, Taraba
State following yesterday's court ruling in Abuja that
nullified the election of Governor Darius Ishaku and the
declaration of Senator Aisha Alhassan as the winner of the
state's April 11th governorship election.
A security source in Wukari told SaharaReporters that
supporters of Governor Ishaku and Senator Alhassan
clashed throughout the night until the early hours of
Sunday.
The situation, our source added if not properly handled
will degenerate into a serious communal crisis because of
the fragile ethnoreligious balance in the area.
Taraba State has been embroiled in series of political crisis
since the plane crash that incapacitated former Governor
Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, a development which led to the
emergence of his deputy, Alhaji Garba Umar who acted as
governor for a prolonged period because Suntai's
supporters would not let him become a substantive
governor until he was removed from office via a
controversial court order.
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