Police shut ‘New PDP’ office

The crisis rocking the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) took a turn for
the worse, Saturday, after the police
sealed off the office of the Alhaji Abubakar
Kawu Baraje-led faction.
The police put the office, situated at Plot
3206A, No 4, Oyi River Crescent,
Maitama, Abuja under lock and key.
The PDP broke into two penultimate
Saturday after a group of members, led
by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar
and six governors namely, Sule Lamido
(Jigawa), Adbdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara),
Aliyu Babangida (Niger), Aliyu
Magatakadar Wammako (Sokoto), Musa
Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Murtala
Nyako (Adamawa), staged a walk out
from the party’s special national
convention holding at the Eagle Square
and, less than one hour later, announced
the emergence of their own faction of the
PDP and named some members as top
officials of the party.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State
has since joined the group to make the
`rebel’ governors seven.
The Baraje faction, aka New PDP,
described the siege by the police to its
office as a flagrant violation of a court
that stopped the Alhaji Bamangar Tukur-
led PDP from interfering with its affairs.
It faulted the police action which it said
was executed on the grounds of a non-
existent court injunction which the Tukur-
led National Working Committee (NWC) of
the PDP claimed to have obtained on
Friday.
But the Tukur NWC hailed the police
action which, according to it, was in
response to the court order.
The sealed factional PDP secretariat was
said to have been inspected by Baraje
and Lamido on Friday ahead of its formal
commissioning anytime this week

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