The troubles surrounding the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may not yet over, as tension continues to mount over the party’s, National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, which is expected to hold today, armed policemen have taken over its secretariat.
According to an official of the party who spoke to newsmen, the police were deployed to stop the proposed NEC Expanded Caucus Meeting.
Some staff members of the party were initially allowed to go into the premises of the secretariat without any resistance from the police, but they were later sent out.
Reports also said, journalists were also asked to leave the premises of the secretariat, while some policemen were seen cordoning off Dalaba Street, which is the road leading to Wadata Plaza, the national headquarters secretariat of the PDP where the NEC meeting is scheduled to hold.