Abuja Council Chairman Escapes Death

Femi Ipaye/Abuja

Mr. Abdulahi Galadima, the Chairman of Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory escaped being lynched on Thursday as hoodlums armed with cutlasses and other dangerous weapons descended on him after the All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders meeting held at the Kuje township hall.

The meeting was held to prepare grounds for Saturday’s ward congresses of the party.

A PMNEWS correspondent who was attacked while taking pictures at the event said the youths who are loyal to Prince Hamidu Saraki Gaube, a Gede by tribe, attacked the chairman for not fulfilling his promise to spend only one term in office.

The youths, during the protest, asked the Kuje Council Chairman who is a Gbagyi to abide by his promise of serving for only one term and allow Gaube, to serve.

Apart from damaging vehicles, the youths went to the APC wards in the area and destroy the properties in the offices.

The youths were later chased away by security operatives.

The hoodlums beat up and damaged the eyeglasses of our reporter when they saw him trying to take their photographs with a cellphone.