Questions are being raised about the whereabouts of Kaduna State Governor Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, who failed to appear at area hospitals where victims of the recent Easter bombing are interned.
Questions are being raised about the whereabouts of Kaduna State Governor Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, who failed to appear at area hospitals where victims of the recent Easter bombing are interned.
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A suicide bomber linked to Boko Haram radicals detonated explosives in Kaduna State on Easter Day. The blast killed at least 38 people, rattling a city long at the center of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation. About 40 were seriously injured.
The explosion damaged the nearby All Nations Christian Assembly Church and the ECWA Good News Church as churchgoers worshipped at an Easter service, the possible target of the bomber.
Witnesses said it appeared the explosive-laden car attempted to go into the compound of the churches before it detonated, but was blocked by barriers in the street and was turned away by a security guard as police approached.
By tradition, Nigerian governors usually visit scenes of disasters and hospitals to comfort the victims and their families. Since the Easter bombing, however, relations and associates of victims at the scene and hospitals waited in vain in anticipation of Yakowa’s visit.
Suspicions are now growing that the governor and his wife are not even in the country. According to a tip received by SaharaReporters, Patrick Yakowa, 63, and his wife were sighted in United Kingdom last week, allegedly on a routine medical check-up. It was also gathered at the Nigerian High Commission in London that he is likely to be in United States to meet with his god-father, Vice President Namadi Sambo who is billed to arrive in the US to meet with US Vice President Joe Biden.
A source in Kaduna also averred that Yakowa left without formally writing the local parliament, made up of mostly his PDP cronies and also without any announcement to the people of the state as to the whereabouts of the governor.
Several calls to Secretary to the State Government, Lawal Abdullahi were not returned by press time.
Only the Deputy Governor, Mukhtar Yero, Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mr. Sani Sidi and Commissioner of Police were sighted at the scene on Sunday. No other prominent Northern official residing in Kaduna was seen commiserating with the victims and their relations.
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