News reaching CEOAFRICA news desk is that the deputy Speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly, Mr Adamu Tanko Maikarfi was reported to have escaped being killed by unknown assassins.

This has come barely a week after the death of the speaker, Mr Haruna Tsokwa.

According to source, the assassins were said to have trailed him to a certain location in Jalingo.

Confirming the assassination attempt, the Deputy Speaker said: “It is true that they came wanting to kill me in my brother’s home.

They got tips that I was there; when they came they did not meet me, after they searched all the rooms holding everyone at gunpoint. God saved me and I thank God, they did not also kill anyone in the house. Only the wife was traumatized as they took her around the house searching for me.”

He added that the security agencies in the state were aware of the development, and that he will continue to stand by the truth and will not bow to any pressure to comprise his office.