Residents in Plateau State set fire to green face caps and traditional brooms handed out by the All Progressives Congress after the party’s North Central campaign rally in Jos on Saturday. Video footage shows people throwing the caps and brooms into open flames on the street near the rally grounds.
Some also burned large banners carrying portraits of President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and Governor Caleb Mutfwang.
The rally took place at the Zaria Road Stadium. Tinubu arrived earlier from Yakubu Gowon Airport and was received by Mutfwang, APC National Chairman Nentawe Yilwatda, Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other party leaders.
Party supporters had lined the roads waving brooms and flags as the convoy passed. At the stadium Tinubu spoke about security, promised to rebuild communities hit by past violence, deploy more forest guards and turn the airport into a cargo facility.
After the event ended some people who had attended walked away and began burning the free items they collected.
In other clips residents said they only came to the rally because organisers promised them money. One man complained he was told he would get ten thousand naira but never received it. Separate videos from earlier in the day show groups behind barricades chanting in Hausa that they do not want Tinubu as his convoy moved through parts of the city.
The scenes come days after similar angry reactions in Abuja. Mutfwang, who recently left the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC, has been campaigning hard for Tinubu ahead of the 2027 elections. Party officials described the stadium turnout as strong and called for unity. The burning of the caps and brooms, which carry the party symbol, has circulated widely online.
