Election violence swept through some Northern states on late hours on Sunday and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the INEC clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has won.
States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto.
In states like Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna, authorities imposed curfews after some people were killed and houses belonging to some prominent persons were burnt by protesting youths.
Among those who lost property to the mayhem are Vice-President Namadi Sambo; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na’Abba; a former presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention, Alhaji Bashir Tofa; and the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
Some churches, a police station and a Quick Service Restaurant were also burnt in Kaduna by irate youths, who dislodged students of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic from their campus.
Some other houses were also razed while a number of people were maimed or killed in Kaduna before Governor Patrick Yakowa imposed a 24-hour curfew on the entire state.
Eyewitnesses also claimed that the protesters forced open the Zaria Central Prison and set the inmates free.
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