JUST IN: CCT Chairman Narrates How He was Attacked By Mob In Abuja

CCT Chairman

The chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, says he was attacked in Abuja by a mob that was “chanting secessionist and sectional slogan”.
The CCT chairman was caught on video hitting a security man who had told him his vehicle was parked in the wrong space at a popular plaza in Abuja.

The chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, says he was attacked in Abuja by a mob that was “chanting secessionist and sectional slogan”.

Umar said the assault saga involving him at a popular plaza in the nation’s capital has left him traumatised and disappointed.

The CCT chairman was caught on video hitting a security man who had told him his vehicle was parked in the wrong space at a popular plaza in Abuja.

In his defence, Ibraheem Al-Hassan, CCT spokesperson, said the guard was rude and could not provide a reasonable explanation why Umar should not park in the said space.

However, Umar, in an interview, said, “As part of my routine activities outside the office and official duties, like any regular Nigerian, I always drive myself and move around freely to places of worship, markets and gyms, among others, without any paraphernalia of office.

“I enjoy such freedom being a believer that one day one would leave whatever office one occupies and returning to living the normal life.

“Therefore, when I was accosted by the Plaza guard in a very rude manner on arriving there, I had maintained my accustomed decorum before I was drawn into an unnecessary altercation and subsequently assaulted, with this degenerating into an attack and injury by a mob that was chanting secessionist and sectional slogans.”