A 78-year-old man in Bauchi State has narrated how a soldier shot and killed his 28-year-old son, Mohammed Bello, to monitor the collation of results after the presidential election in Bauchi State on Sunday.

While speaking with journalists, Alhaji Yahaya Wunti, the father of the deceased lamented thus:

“Mohammed always asked for my permission before leaving the house. He came to me that fateful day at around 11am and informed me that he wanted to go to INEC and I asked him whether he was carrying any incriminating thing on him and he said, ‘no’.
“It was just about 10 minutes after he left that they brought his dead body that he was shot by a soldier.”

“He was a good boy, who did not like making trouble. He was a mason and was very hardworking but he was very passionate about Buhari. I know my son wouldn’t break the law because of his love for Buhari, so I wonder why the soldier chose to waste a promising young man like Mohammed,” he said.

The Bauchi South Senator-elect, Mallam Ali Wakili of the All Progressives Congress, who was among the sympatisers, expressed sadness over the loss.

A version of the incident had it that Mohammed threw a stone at the soldiers, who had a hard time trying to control the multitude of Buhari supporters who thronged the INEC Headquarters at Ahmadu Bello Way in the state capital on Sunday, after the general election. Punch newspaper reports that  the soldier, reacting to the alleged stoning, shot Mohammed in the head.