{"id":66604,"date":"2025-05-27T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66604"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:18:11","slug":"pdp-slams-tinubu-government-over-sealing-of-party-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/27\/pdp-slams-tinubu-government-over-sealing-of-party-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Slams Tinubu Government Over Sealing of Party Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for sealing its national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, describing the action as a politically motivated attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to stifle opposition.<\/p>\n<p>While the FCTA cited unpaid ground rent as the reason for the action, the PDP insists it was a calculated move to intimidate and weaken the party.<\/p>\n<p>PDP Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, who addressed the press after an emergency caucus meeting at the Bauchi State Governor\u2019s Lodge in Asokoro, described the development as \u201cthe highest irresponsibility\u201d by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, if they want to arrest all of us, we are ready for that,\u201d Damagum said. \u201cThey are trying to mar democracy, and this is not acceptable. We condemn it and assure them they will have to contend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sealing forced the party to reschedule its planned National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting from Monday night to Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Damagum further accused the APC administration of using federal institutions as tools for political oppression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, our national secretariat has been sealed off. This is the height of irresponsibility from this government,\u201d he said, warning that the PDP would not stand by while democracy is undermined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will have us to contend with in the near future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The move has drawn criticism from PDP members and civil society groups, who view it as a troubling signal for Nigeria\u2019s democracy under President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>A full statement from the PDP is expected following Tuesday\u2019s NEC meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for sealing its national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, describing the action as a politically motivated attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to stifle opposition. While the FCTA cited unpaid ground rent as the reason for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66604","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=66604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66606,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66604\/revisions\/66606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}