The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu'azu
and other members of the party's national working committee today abandoned
their respective offices in Abuja after angry party members from Rivers State
stormed and took over the party's secretariat.
According to SaharaReporters, the only member of the NWC who managed
to show up was Kema Chikwe, the woman leader, but she too did not spend
up to three minutes at the gate as the protesters threatened to beat her up if
she attempts entering the premises. Cairo Ojugboh, who oversees the party in
the South-South zone, was also ordered to leave. He obeyed the order and promptly left the
party secretariat for the protesters.
The protesters said they came to protest against former minister of state for education
and the party's governorship candidate in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and Uche
Secondus, the national vice chairman of the party. Wike is the anointed
governorship candidate of Mrs. Patience Jonathan in Rivers State.
Singing war songs and carrying a mock coffin, the protesters also erected a
canopy with which they blocked the entrance to the party's national secretariat.
No staff was allowed access to the office as the three gates leading to the premises were
effectively blocked by the protesters. Some 100 policemen stood nearby and watched as
the protesters took over the zone five area of the party secretariat.
The protesters arrived the scene around 6am, but were later dispersed forcefully
around 5:20pm by the police who fired life bullets and teargas canisters
into the air. Five of protesters were later arrested.
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