Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant in the 2023 election on Tuesday informed the 5,000 people gathered for his birthday celebration that about 60 people were killed by bandits on Tuesday.
POLITICS NIGERIA had earlier reported that Tinubu cancelled his Birthday Colloquium to honour the victims of Kaduna train attack.
He said: “Its very sad indeed that over 60 people and many more were killed and burned on the train between Kaduna and Abuja”.
Gunmen attacked a train travelling from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to the city of Kaduna, in an “unprecedented” act of violence.
The attackers used explosives to blow up the rail track before opening fire. Train staff and security personnel were among those killed. Many others were injured and there were fears that an unknown number had been abducted.
Much of north-west and central Nigeria has been in the grip of attacks by so-called bandit groups, proscribed terrorists in Nigeria, who have carried out mass killings mainly in villages, rural towns and motorways. The groups – mostly ethnic Fulanis – have kidnapped thousands of people for ransom as well as killing, stealing and committing acts of sexual violence.
If that’s case, non is safe in Nigeria