A commotion erupted on Monday at the Wadata Plaza national Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja as loyalists of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike led by Mohammed Abdulrahman, stormed the premises with the intent to occupy the secretariat.
The group chanting solidarity songs, have told that the National Working Committee under Umar Damagum, to leave the headquarters immediately.
Earlier on Monday morning, Mohammed told journalists at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) office of the PDP that he was moving to the PDP headquarters to take take over the secretariat.
According to him, “we are all aware of the current pitiable state of our glorious party because of the actions and inactions of our leaders and members. From being the ruling party for 16 uninterrupted years to being an opposition party for over 10 years now at the national level, from being a formidable opposition to a now humbled opposition owing to the unexplainable, unconscionable defections of Governors, Legislators and Council Chairmen, et al.”
Abdulrahman was named the Acting National Chairman of the party last week as the leadership crisis threatening the soul of the party worsened with the suspension of the party’s National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, and the Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, for a period of one month.
Subsequenty, the faction loyal to Anyanwu assembled at a separate venue in Abuja and suspended the Damagum-led NWC.
Abdulrahmen and his group accused the Damagum-led leadership of mismanaging party affairs, and vowed that they would take control of the secretariat for the Abdulrahman-led faction.
Police have been deployed to the area to prevent a breakdown of law and order as both factions struggle for control of the party’s secretariat.
