A candidate for governor in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno has been shot dead, officials say.
Modu Fannami Gubio and six people in his entourage were killed by men on motorbikes as they left a mosque in Maiduguri city after Friday prayers.
Mr Gubio was the candidate for the opposition All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) in April's elections.
Similar ride-by attacks have been blamed on the Boko Haram sect, who have been targeting police and politicians.
People hid inside their homes and shops shut as police cordoned off large neighbourhoods searching for the killers of Mr Gubio, AP reports.
"He was shot and killed this afternoon. Obviously it's a political assassination. It was himself and six others," Borno's police chief Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar told AFP news agency.
Known locally as the Taliban, the Boko Haram sect wants to see Islamic law imposed across Nigeria.
It is opposed to Western education and accuses Nigeria's government of being corrupted by Western ideas.
Hundreds of people suspected of being Boko Haram members escaped from prison last September after gunmen attacked the jail where they were being held in the city.
Clashes in Maiduguri between Boko Haram and the police in July 2009 left hundreds of mainly sect members dead.
The violence began after the sect members attacked a police station in Maiduguri in 2009 and clashes spread to neighbouring areas.
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