{"id":77963,"date":"2025-11-03T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77963"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:41:58","slug":"protest-erupts-at-pdp-secretariat-over-leadership-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/protest-erupts-at-pdp-secretariat-over-leadership-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Erupts at PDP Secretariat Over Leadership Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), National Vice Chairman (North Central), Mohammed Abdulrahman, on Monday staged a protest at the party\u2019s national secretariat in Abuja, demanding the removal of the Umar Damagum-led National Working Committee (NWC).<\/p>\n<p>Chanting solidarity songs, the protesters accused the NWC of mismanaging party affairs and vowed to reclaim the secretariat for the Abdulrahman faction.<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel were deployed to prevent unrest.<\/p>\n<p>The protest came after Abdulrahman was announced as Acting National Chairman, following the suspension of National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Legal Adviser Kamaldeen Ajibade.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a rival faction loyal to Anyanwu declared the Damagum-led NWC suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The development marks another escalation in the PDP\u2019s ongoing leadership crisis, raising fresh concerns over the opposition party\u2019s stability ahead of future elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Supporters of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), National Vice Chairman (North Central), Mohammed Abdulrahman, on Monday staged a protest at the party\u2019s national secretariat in Abuja, demanding the removal of the Umar Damagum-led National Working Committee (NWC). Chanting solidarity songs, the protesters accused the NWC of mismanaging party affairs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77965,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963\/revisions\/77965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}