Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate for Lere Federal Constituency in Kaduna State, Suleiman Tambaya, on Friday night, escaped an assassination attempt as gunmen invaded his residence at Gure village in Lere Local Government Area of the state, killing two persons.

The incident, our correspondent gathered occurred at about 10:00 pm when the House of Representatives candidate was away at a political meeting in Kaduna, the state capital.

This is coming barely three months after gunmen killed the Party’s women leader, Mrs Victoria Chimtex, in her residence in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state in November 2022.

The hoodlums also shot Victoria’s husband in the leg and instantly rushed him to an undisclosed medical facility where he was said to be receiving treatment.

Narrating his ordeal to our correspondent on Saturday, Tambaya said that for divine intervention and the prompt response from the members of the community and local vigilante, it would have been a “different story by now.”

He also said the police in Lere responded to the distressed call.

Tambaya said, “I was planning to go home on Friday but I spoke to our governorship candidate and he asked me to come and see him. That was when I diverted and came to Kaduna.

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