Governor Patrick Yakowa
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 us, 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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