Youth Besiege Abuja, Block Roads Celebrating Buhari’s Victory

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Some youth in their numbers, yesterday, besieged major streets, especially in the Central Business District, Wuse Market, Jabi, Utako in Abuja celebrating President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the polls.

Brandishing sticks, brooms and cutlasses, the youth also blocked entry and exit points into the city.

They
formed a human blockade at Masaka on the Abuja-Keffi expressway,
impeding traffic flow. Same thing happened at City Gate on Airport Road
and AYA-Zuba expressway at Dutsen Alhaji Junction.

City News
observed that a large number of the celebrating youth, who were mostly
minors, swarmed the lane leading into Abuja from Keffi, chanting ‘sai
baba’ as they forced motorists to do same.

The bonnets and
windshields of some motorists’ vehicles that did not chant ‘sai baba’
and did not make the NextLevel gesture by raising four fingers were
smashed.

The chaos continued down to Mararaba market as they
pulled down campaign billboards of opposition candidates and set them
ablaze.

In some instances, they sat on some vehicles’ bonnets for
minutes, dancing and chanting ‘sai baba’ while they brandished brooms,
the APC symbol.

They also handed motorists brooms as permit and those who refused to collect were harassed and delayed passage.

Commercial
tricycle and motorcycle riders also joined in the wild celebration, as
they drove recklessly, performing stunts on the Airport Road, Obafemi
Awolowo Way along Jabi-Berger roundabout, Abuja-Keffi Road and several
other locations in the FCT.

They rode to places where they had
been banned by authorities from accessing as other residents moved about
cautiously and in fear.
A motorist, John Yahaya, said Buhari’s
supporters were free to celebrate but harassing other citizens who were
going about their legitimate businesses was not acceptable.

He said their action was provocative but thanked God that nobody confronted them as any altercation could result to violence.

The
FCT police command spokesman, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, could not comment on
the chaos in the city as he did not pick calls or reply to a text
message sent to his mobile phone number.

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