Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on School Agriculture, Dr. Baraka Sani, on Saturday narrowly escaped being lynched in Kano when some suspected political hoodlums prevented her from casting her votes.
The incident occurred at Jigriya Ward in Dakatar Quarters, Nasarawa area of Kano State.
An eyewitness recounts that when Baraka was about casting her votes, the hoodlums started chanting, “Ba muayi, ba zaki ye zabe ba,” meaning, “We are not with you and will not allow you to vote.” hurling stones at her thereby injuring two of her aides who were rushed to the hospital.
She was shielded to her car and immediately zoomed off.
She returned to cast her vote after mobilising a retinue of Military, DSS, and Police Personnels to escort her.
Narrating her ordeal, Sani asked, “Is that the kind of change Nigerians are yearning for, where Nigerians would be denied their constitutional right? Is this the kind of change that women will be summoned before the ICC?
“Is this the kind of change that the opposition is denigrating women that they will never again participate in the political process, limiting their freedom of expression, freedom and constitutional right?” (Elombah).