Council Polls: CPP chides Yar'Adua over violence - Vanguard

Written by Chris Ochayi

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

The Citizens Popular Party (CPP) has described as “medicine after death” President Umaru Yar’Adua’s lamentation of violence and apathy that characterised the conduct of the Local Governments council elections held in some states recently. President Yar’Adua, worried by reports of wide spread of irregularities and frauds which marred the council polls, had summoned a meeting of the 36 State Governors, some political parties chairmen/secretaries and the security chiefs in the 36 states of the Federation to Abuja to rob minds on the matter. Full Story