A popular musician, Charles Oputa,
popularly called Charly Boy, who has been leading a campaign for the return or
resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been attacked.
Charly Boy was attacked in...
Wuse
Market by angry protesters who are believed to be supporters of the president,
witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES.
The musician and his fellow
campaigners were last week attacked by security officials who dispersed them
violently from the Unity fountain, also in Abuja.
“Charley Boy came to this market
with some cameramen doing his protest here.
I was standing in front of my shop
when I saw him running for his dear life, being chased by those youth,” a
trader at the market said.
“They nearly murdered him, because
those youth almost overpowered police security near him.”
The musician was rescued by security
operatives who fired gunshots and tear-gas to disperse the crowd.
The security operatives later
returned to remove Charly Boy’s vehicles from the market, using tear-gas to
disperse the protesters who tried to stop them.
Wuse market
is Abuja’s largest and is dominated by northerners, many of them supporters of
President Buhari.
The gates of
the market were temporarily closed and manned by heavily armed security
operatives after the incident.
“Charley Boy
caused it, how can he come here to be talking against Buhari.
Those Hausa
boys dealt with him,” a meat seller in the market who witnessed the incident
said.
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