Bomb blast after Jonathan’s presidential rally in Gombe

Monday, 2 February 2015

President Jonathan with the Emir of Gombe today

A blast ripped through a car park outside a stadium where President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a re-election campaign rally on Monday, minutes after he left, witnesses said.
Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in Gombe, said the explosion happened at 3:10 pm just three minutes after Jonathan’s departure.
A local reporter added:

The president had just passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind his convoy when the explosion happened… just 100 metres (yards) from the bus we were driving in.”