The crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has provided “graphic details” of how its suspended National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, allegedly led “thugs to break into the party’s national secretariat in Abuja” on Monday.
The party’s National Working Committee (NWC), led by National Chairman Amb. Iliya Damagum, had previously suspended Anyanwu and others last week over alleged “anti-party activities.”
However, Anyanwu issued a “counter-suspension order” against Damagum and others, simultaneously announcing the party’s National Vice Chairman (North-Central), Mohammed Abdulrahman, as the new Acting National Chairman of the party. Consequently, on Monday, Anyanwu led Abdulrahman, along with protesters, to take over the PDP national secretariat, purportedly as the new party leaders.
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The Damagum-led PDP, on Thursday, countered this action, stating that “CCTV footage has exposed the suspended National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, and an alleged thug leader, Emmanuel Okoronkwo, as leading the break-in” at the Wadata Plaza national secretariat of the party.
Taking to its verified Facebook page, the PDP wrote: “In a damning development that has sent shockwaves through Nigeria’s political landscape, closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage has emerged exposing Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and his notorious head of thugs, Emmanuel Okoronkwo, orchestrating a brazen break-in at the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza.”
The post further detailed the footage, stating: “The graphic video shows Anyanwu – dressed in a signature white caftan – and Okoronkwo, clad in a grey jacket with a face cap pulled low, alongside a gang of hooded hoodlums, forcing entry into key administrative offices during the invasion.”
PDP loyalists claimed that the footage, which they assert was “independently verified” and “shared widely on social media under #WadataInvasion,” captures the group “smashing locks and breaking doors at the Party’s National Secretariat.”
Security sources, according to the post, confirm the intrusion “was aimed at disrupting preparations for the convention, in a desperate bid to sow chaos and derail the party’s unity drive.”
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