The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its
House of Assembly primaries, scheduled for Monday, Dec. 1st across the nation,
by one day as a mark of respect for those who were killed in Friday’s terrorist
attack on a mosque in Kano, and in sympathy with those who were injured or
affected one way or the other by the senseless attack.Residents look at a burnt
motorcycles outside the central mosque in northern Nigeria’s largest city of
Kano on November 29, 2014, a day after twin suicide blasts hit the mosque
during weekly Friday prayers. At least 120 people were killed and 270 others
wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire
during weekly prayers at the mosque, a week after the emir of Kano, Muhammad
Sanusi II, of one of Nigeria’s top Islamic leaders called on northerners to
defend themselves against Boko Haram Islamists that have been carrying out
deadly attacks and seizure of territory in the northeast.In a statement issued
in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the House of Assembly primaries will now hold on Tuesday, Dec.
2nd 2014”All the dates for other primaries remain unchanged,” it said.APC
described the attack as a monumental national tragedy, saying the party cannot
be oblivious to the plight of the victims of the absolutely condemnable and
totally incomprehensible attack on defenseless citizens in such a hallowed
place as a mosque.In an earlier statement, the party had condemned, in the
strongest terms possible, the attack on the innocent worshipers and vowed that
terrorism will never prevail no matter how long it takes.It also urged all
citizens to demonstrate the Nigerian spirit of compassion and strength of
character by providing succor and support to one another
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