Nigeria, July 12 -- The police have arrested a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa State, Abubakar Gossima, for allegedly opposing a party member's ambition to go to the House of Representatives on social media.

Mustapha Bulangu, a friend of Mr Gossima, told PREMIUM TIMES that the police intercepted his friend, an APC youth leader, on Thursday along the Kafin Hausa/Bulangu highway in Bulangu town in the Kafin Hausa Local Government Area.

Mr Bulangu said a police team, led by Mustpaha Taufiq of the Special Investigation Unit, Abuja, stopped the commercial vehicle and took Mr Gossima to Abuja over a complaint by Aliyu Suleiman.

Mr Suleiman, an aspirant for the House of Representatives, reportedly took offence at Mr Go...