The police have deployed heavily armed officers to the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), popularly known as Wadata Plaza.
As early as 8:30 a.m. on Monday, no fewer than 70 armed policemen took strategic positions around the secretariat, where factions of the party had scheduled their meetings.
The Dalaba street leading to the secretariat was barricaded with police trucks.
Scores of youths suspected to be thugs who had surrounded the premises were immediately chased out of the vicinity of the secretariat.
Secretariat workers who had entered the premises earlier were quickly asked to leave, but a few who reported later were allowed to stay.
On Sunday night, two senior party officials issued conflicting directives regarding the long-anticipated 100th meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC), scheduled for Monday, June 30, 2025.
Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja, the Deputy National Chairman (South), in a press conference held in Abuja on Sunday night, reaffirmed the party’s commitment to holding the 100th NEC meeting as scheduled, asserting that the meeting remains legally binding and unalterable.
Addressing journalists, Arapaja declared, “For the avoidance of doubt, the National Working Committee (NWC) assures all Party members that the 100th NEC meeting will proceed as scheduled tomorrow, Monday, June 30, 2025, at the NEC Hall of the Wadata Plaza, PDP National Secretariat, Abuja.”
However, some members of the NEC and the Board of Trustees (BoT), including Hajia Maina Ciroma, who attempted to get access to Wadara Plaza, were turned back.
His remarks come in direct response to a notice by the party’s National Secretary, Sam Anyanwu, which stated that the NEC meeting had been replaced with a “Special Expanded National Caucus Meeting”.
Anyanwu’s notice invited a broad range of stakeholders, including former governors, immediate past gubernatorial candidates, ex-members of the NWC, state chairmen, and PDP National Assembly caucus members, to the meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Monday.
