Gunmen shot dead a leading governorship candidate and six others on Friday in northern Nigeria in a suspected political assassination ahead of April elections, the state police commissioner said. "He was shot and killed this afternoon. Obviously it's a political assassination. It was himself and six others," police chief in Borno state Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar told AFP.
Witnesses said that four gunmen arrived on two motorbikes as Modu Fannami Gubio was sitting outside after greeting his father following Friday's Muslim prayers in the city of Maiduguri. Others killed were his younger brother, security aides and political associates, Abubakar said. Gubio was the candidate from the All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP), the ruling party in Borno state.
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