#ElectionPalaver: Bomb Explotion After Jonathan's rally in Gombe

    According to BBC a female suicide bomber has blown up herself in the Nigerian city of Gombe, minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a campaign rally there. At least one person was killed and 18 others were wounded in the blast, police and hospital sources said.





Gombe police spokesman Fwaje Atajiri told the BBC the bomber blew herself up near a car.  He said a female passerby had been killed, contradicting earlier reports that three people had been killed in the blast.
Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in Gombe, said the explosion occurred some three minutes after Mr Jonathan's departure, AFP news agency reports. "The president had just passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind his convoy when the explosion happened," he was quoted as saying.



Since Monday morning, the city has largely been in lockdown with security operatives restricting the movement of people in most areas, Nigeria's privately owned Daily Trust newspaper reports. A local journalist told AFP the latest blast had led to unrest in Gombe, with angry youths attacking supporters of Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP). They were shouting and denouncing the president's visit which they blamed for the attack," he added.


It may not have been as large as other bombings in Nigeria but the timing of the latest attack will have shocked the security forces. The violence is escalating in the run-up to elections due in less than two weeks time.



May God really have mercy on these Northerners, hope they don't plunge this country into anther civil war...