Gunmen kill Governor Al-Makura’s aide

Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Al-Makura’s head driver has been assassinated on Saturday by some yet to be identified gunmen. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ismaila Numan, who confirmed the killing, the driver, Abdullahi Mairuwa, was said to be travelling with his wife from Lafia to Keana Local Government Area on Saturday morning when he was attacked by the gunmen at Tudun Adabu village in Obi Local Government Area of the state. “The report we got from the scene indicated that Mairuwa’s killers shot him at close range in the presence of his wife, before escaping through a bush path,” Numan told News Agency of Nigeria. The PPRO said detectives had been deployed to investigate the killing. A family source, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the gunmen had told the victim’s wife not to panic and that they had come for her husband alone, whom they shot twice in the chest. The source added Mairuwa’s remains had been taken to Keana for burial according to Islamic rites.