Angry youths invade APC secretariat over FCT senatorial primaries
04 October 2018 |
5:14 am
There was pandemonium at the National Secretariat of the All Progressive Congress on Wednesday morning, when youths of the party in Abuja besieged the premises to protest direct primaries declared by the party for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
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