A member of the Nineveh Provincial Council for the city of Mosul, Abdullah al-Nujaifi, criticized political figures in Nineveh / he did not name them / saying that they accepted to represent political blocs alien to the province. Al-Nujaifi told the Iraqi National News Agency /NINA/ that "figures in Nineveh represent figures and political forces led by people, I refuse and do not accept for myself to make them walk behind me, and I wonder how those figures allow these forces to lead them in Nineveh.?" Source: National Iraqi News Agency