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Thugs Storm PDP National Secretariat, Disrupt BoT Meeting

Agency Report –

The crisis ravaging Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took another dimension on Wednesday, as suspected thugs invaded the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, disrupting the 79th Board of Trustees, BoT, meeting.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP has been embroiled in leadership crisis, as Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Udey-Okoye have continued to lay claim to office of the National Secretary.

A High Court and the Court of Appeal, both sitting in Enugu, had, on Dec. 20, 2024 and Jan. 14, removed Anyanwu from office and recognised Udey-Okoye as the PDP national secretary.

Mr Anyanwu, however, later secured a stay of execution order from the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, in an appeal No. CA/E/24/2024 on the judgment earlier delivered by the Enugu division of the appellate court.

The latest crisis started a few minutes after the opening ceremony of the meeting, when non-BoT members and journalists were asked to leave the hall for a closed-door session.

As the indoor session was about to commence, the party’s former National Youth Leader, Sunday Udey-Okoye, was dragged out of the hall by the political thugs, claiming that he was not a BoT member.

Thereafter, the thugs, suspected to be loyal to Anyanwu, mounted the hall, shouting that Udey-Okoye cannot enter the hall again.

The situation forced the supporters of Udey-Okoye to mobilise themselves to the entrance of the hall to confront one of Anyanwu’s aides who quickly ran inside the hall and closed the door.

Some of the political thugs were also seeing scaling the fence of the PDP national secretariat to support their respective leaders.

It took the intervention of the police and other security agents around to bring the situation under control, using pepper spray.

NAN reports that more security personnel from the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the military had been mobilised to party secretariat to restore normalcy.

The meeting was chaired by the acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, and the BoT Chairman, Adolphus Wabara.

As at the time of filing this report, the closed-door meeting was ongoing, but without Udeh-Okoye in attendance.

SourceNAN

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