Hoodlums believed to be political criminals on Tuesday, vandalised the project office of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar at the Investment Quarters, 8 kilometres away from the Gombe metropolitan area.

The thugs likewise razed the Gombe State Secretariat of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, positioned along Bauchi road in Gombe.

According to reports, the workers of the fire service with assistance from males of the Nigeria Police Force and some locals were able to delay the inferno which destroyed valuables, consisting of important documents.

The state’s PDP Chairman, General Audu Kwaskebe (Rtd), while resolving press reporters after the occurrence, accused members of the judgment All Progressives Congress, APC, of being accountable.

According to him, the youth leader of the APC, Kawu Lero, spearheaded the burning of the secretariat and the vandalization of Atiku’s campaign office.

But the state Public Relations Officer of the APC, Mr Moses Kyari, informed Daily Trust that it was PDP members that set their office on fire, “due to internal crisis over control of the party structure.”

Efforts by DAILY POST to reach the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, SP Obed Mary Malum, proved abortive as of press time.