Olushola Omogbehin
The battle for the sole of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) continued yesterday as police officers sealed off the party’s national secretariat in Abuja in order to stop the Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) from holding its postponed inaugural meeting.
According to report, the security lockdown, which started early in the day after the secretariat was sealed on Tuesday evening, resulted into the entire complex being sealed off, with police officers officers stationed everywhere.
Police presence in the whole area with patrol vans seamed to be a coordinated display of force around the secretariat with leadership of the party being denied access into the secretariat.
“The tension around the PDP secretariat is really palpable after the police put up the barbed-wire barricade, especially with the Rapid Deployment Barrier Unit of the FCT Command involved,” a PDP staffer said.
The barricade on Wadata Plaza has become the latest flashpoint in PDP’s ongoing leadership tussle, with many interpreting it as a deliberate attempt to slow or halt the Turaki team’s formal assumption of duties.
“We believe the move was meant to stop the Turaki-led NWC from holding its postponed inaugural meeting,” another source said.
