During a reorganization meeting two years ago
attended by both factions, Ragusa was elected chairman, but the Haggerty faction walked out, claimed the voting was flawed and held a separate meeting to install Bart Haggerty as chairman.
Not exact matches
The congress held
by Sylva's
faction, which was
attended by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and other party members, elected the Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Jonathan Amos, as the chairman.
«Several longtime loyal African American, Haitian and Hispanic District leaders also
attended but were unable to vote for the Chairman due to having been targeted
by the opposing
faction and knocked off of the ballot during petitioning.»
(«Unanimous» in this case means all of the people who were present, since those allied with the so - called «rogue
faction» led
by the «notorious Haggerty brothers» — the party's words, not mine, and it makes them sound like outlaws in a bad Western movie — et al
attended the other meeting).
The Makarfi
faction, in a statement issued on Wednesday
by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Banji Okunomo, said the Sherriff
faction's primary was illegally conducted, adding that it was not
attended by the «real stakeholders.»
The meeting, which was held at an undisclosed venue in Abuja, was said to have been
attended by some members from the two
factions.