Unknown persons suspected to be political thugs have invaded the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Abuja.
The incident which took place today, Wednesday, January 29th led to the disruption of the 79th Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting.
Recall that the duo of Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Udey-Okoye are both laying claim to the office of the national secretary, thus putting the party in a leadership crisis of a sort.
A high court and the court of appeal, both sitting in Enugu, on December 20, 2024, and January 14 removed Anyanwu from office and recognised Udey-Okoye as the PDP national secretary.
However, Anyanwu, 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, Udey-Okoye, was dragged out of the hall by the political thugs, claiming that he was not a BoT member.
The thugs, later mounted the hall, shouting that Udey-Okoye could not 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 seen 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.
The meeting was chaired by the acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, and the BoT Chairman, Adolphus Wabara.
NAN reports that the closed-door meeting was later held but without Udeh-Okoye in attendance.
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