{"id":78876,"date":"2025-11-18T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78876"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:09:09","slug":"tension-at-pdp-hq-as-rival-factions-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/18\/tension-at-pdp-hq-as-rival-factions-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension at PDP HQ as Rival Factions Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension escalated at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday as two rival factions attempted to hold separate meetings at the same venue, prompting heavy security deployment.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared by Symfoni showed armed policemen and patrol vans positioned at the entrance of Wadata Plaza as officers screened individuals entering the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Factional national secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, aligned with FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, arrived early and took control of the secretariat. Speaking to journalists, he insisted he remains the party\u2019s legitimate national secretary until his tenure ends in December, adding that he invited security personnel to prevent disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the PDP\u2019s usual practice to call in security whenever a major meeting is scheduled,\u201d Anyanwu said, stressing that the aim was to keep \u201cintruders\u201d from interfering.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis deepened after Monday\u2019s controversial national convention in Ibadan, which produced a new National Working Committee and expelled several Wike loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their expulsion, Wike\u2019s camp issued a notice convening an emergency NEC and BoT meeting at the headquarters, the same venue and time scheduled by the Kabiru Turaki-led faction, which claims legitimacy from the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Turaki accused Anyanwu\u2019s faction of attempting to destabilise the party, insisting that those expelled have no authority to convene any meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext to God, the national convention is the highest authority. Those expelled are no longer members of our party,\u201d he said, warning that any group operating outside the newly elected leadership would be treated as \u201cinterlopers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives maintained a heavy presence as both groups maneuvered for control, deepening fears of a possible confrontation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Tension escalated at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday as two rival factions attempted to hold separate meetings at the same venue, prompting heavy security deployment. A video shared by Symfoni showed armed policemen and patrol vans positioned at the entrance of Wadata Plaza as officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78876","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\/78876","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=78876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78887,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78876\/revisions\/78887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}