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The crisis in the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has snowballed into violence at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. The fist-cuff occurred less than 15 minutes after members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) had convened for emergency meeting.

According to reports, tensions flared as two claimants to the position of National Secretary; Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye, insisted on participating in the 79th BoT meeting. The two of them has taken seats at the high table.

However, the situation degenerated when Udeh-Okoye was forcibly removed from the hall by an aide of Senator Anyanwu.

Udeh-Okey who had resisted being pushed out, demanded that his supporters, who had scaled the main fence, be allowed inside.

But fight broke out when an aide to Anyanwu, Emmanuel Okoronkwo, who had previously assaulted a journalist at the PDP secretariat, slapped Udeh-Okoye. This development caused other party supporters to join in physically removing Udeh-Okoye from the venue.

However, security personnel deployed to the venue of the meeting had initially used pepper spray to control the chaos. Tension reignited again ten minutes later, when Udeh-Okoye returned with about ten men dressed in black T-shirts.

Policemen and the PDP Chief Security Officer, CSO, were seen appealing to him to de-escalate the situation.

By the time of this report, more than 50 supporters from both factions are currently gathered outside the party secretariat.

 

More detail coming…

 

source: The Nation

 

 

 

 

 

 

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