Protesters have taken over the Zone 5 Wadata House National Headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja on Monday.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE reports that the protest was not unconnected with the struggle for the appointment of a substantive secretary of the PDP
With the latest crisis, the party, which has been on break since December, and billed to resume on Monday, has sunk deeper over the control of the heart of the party. The latest situation is attributed to the existing crisis.
The protesters are loyalists of the embattled Secretary, Senator Sam Anyanwu, who desired to stop the assumption of Sunday Ude-Okoye.
The Court of Appeal Enugu division had declared that Sunday Ude-Okoye is the National Secretary of the party.
The protesters chanted, “No vacancy in the National Secretary’s office” and “Senator Sam Anyanwu remains the National Secretary,” barricading the entrance of the PDP secretariat.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in the vicinity with a police lorry stationed outside the main gate, while some policemen joined PDP’s private security team to search workers and visitors before granting them access to the building.
Both Anyanwu or Sunday Ude-Okoye had not been seen at the National Secretariat.
