Bloody primaries: Aliero meets aspirants – Daily Trust
November 16, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senator Adamu Aliero and other party bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the territory, yesterday held a closed door meeting with all the ward aspirants in Saturday’s bloody council primaries in order to resolve their differences. The meeting which was held at the minister’s Life Camp residence began at 6 am and lasted until evening.
A party chieftain Adejoh James told Daily Trust that the meeting was attended by the FCT Chairman of the party, Hassan Gwagwa, PDP council chairmen, local government chairmen and a member of the House of Representatives, Philip Aduda.
Mr James said Aliero called the meeting to ensure that the party comes out with acceptable candidates that would win in the forth coming area councils election in the territory.
Speaking on the violence that disrupted the ward Congresses in some parts of the territory, the PDP stalwart who observed the election at Nyanya Ward, attributed the cause of the crisis to supporters of an aspirant that got the least number of votes.
