Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party PDP governorship candidate Mr Caleb Mutfwang has suspended all campaign activities due to an accident which claimed the lives of seven supporters.
Director, of Media and Publicity to the Atiku-MutfwangCampaign Council, Plateau, Abraham Yiljap, said this in a statement in Jos on Sunday.
The seven supporters of the PDP in Plateau died and 32 sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident on Friday, while returning from the party’s zonal campaign flag – off held at Pankshin.
The truck conveying the party faithful crashed on a slope between Pushit and the Panyam bridge in Mangu Local Government Area of the state.
Yiljap said in demonstration of grief and as a mark of honour to the party members, the governorship has suspended all campaign activities with immediate effect.
He said the guber candidate had also asked that intense prayers be offered for divine comfort for families and individuals who were bereaved and healing of the injured.
He said the death will ever remain fresh in the memories of party members and admirers as they were being lifted up as heroes of democracy.
