{"id":60137,"date":"2025-01-29T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60137"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:31:47","slug":"chaos-erupts-at-pdp-headquarters-during-bot-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/29\/chaos-erupts-at-pdp-headquarters-during-bot-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracas Mars PDP&#8217;s Board of Trustees Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pandemonium broke out at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday as thugs reportedly stormed a Board of Trustees (BoT), meeting, disrupting proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, chaired by Acting National Chairman Amb.<\/p>\n<p>Umar Damagum, turned chaotic following a heated confrontation between National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and former Youth Leader Sunday Ude-Okoye, both vying for the PDP National Secretary position.<\/p>\n<p>Ude-Okoye, whose 2023 nomination to replace Anyanwu has fueled internal tensions, was removed from the venue upon Anyanwu\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute follows conflicting court rulings on Anyanwu\u2019s tenure, with an Enugu Appeal Court recognizing Ude-Okoye while an Abuja Appeal Court recently reinstated Anyanwu pending a Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Pandemonium broke out at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday as thugs reportedly stormed a Board of Trustees (BoT), meeting, disrupting proceedings. The meeting, chaired by Acting National Chairman Amb. Umar Damagum, turned chaotic following a heated confrontation between National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and former Youth Leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60159,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions\/60159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}