Police cordon off Anambra PDP office, abort party’s SEC meeting

By Vincent Ujumadu

Awka — A detachment of the Anambra State Police Command, yesterday, cordoned off the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and stopped members of the State Executive Council, SEC, of the party from conducting their scheduled meeting.

The PDP officials had gathered from the various local government areas of the state for the meeting only to see stern-looking policemen barricading the entrance to the party office.

It was not clear at press time who gave the order to stop the meeting, as the leader of the police team, Superintendent William Odumu, declined explanations.

Though the national leadership of PDP had, last week, announced the dissolution of the party’s caretaker committees in some states, including Anambra, some members of the state executive committee, who were barred from entering the PDP premises, yesterday, described the dissolution as illegal because, according to them, they emerged through properly conducted congresses at the ward, local government and state levels.

The dissolved state chairman of PDP, Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, was not present, but his deputy, Mr. Uchenu Ofokansi, said: “We came to hold a meeting only to discover that policemen had cordoned off our state secretariat and we had no other option than to call off the meeting.

“We had asked the police why we should not hold our meeting or if there was any petition from anywhere, but their leader told us that the order came from above and this made us to be confused.

“We don’t know about the dissolution of our state executive because Senator Stella Oduah and Mr. Chuka Onyema who are the current leaders of the party in the state in the absence of a governor, did not know about the purported dissolution. We have not been communicated the fact that we have been dissolved either.”

Meanwhile, the state PDP had vowed to challenge the purported dissolution, regretting that some people were still bent on continuing the crisis in the party.

 

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