Security operatives in Abuja on Wednesday dispersed suspected political thugs attempting to cause a crisis at the Peoples Democratic Party national headquarters in Abuja as the party National Working Committee met.
A member of staff of the national secretariat, who pleaded anonymity, said the suspected thugs were led by Emmanuel Okoronkwo.
Okoronkwo is an aide to Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who was ousted by the court as PDP National Secretary.
He said that the thugs came with the mission to block the NWC members from accessing the party headquarters for their meeting.
He added that it took the intervention of some personnel of the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to dispel the thugs who were harassing the party staff members.
The PDP has been engulfed with crisis as Anyanwu and a former National Youth Leader, Sunday Ude-Okoye, laid claim to the position of National Secretary.
While the Court of Appeal in Enugu upheld Ude-Okoye as PDP National Secretary, the Supreme Court had reserved its judgment on the matter.
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According to the PDP members: “The party staff, with the support of security personnel, confronted the thugs and dispersed them.
“The leader of the thugs, Okoronkwo, was arrested and the other thugs were cleared from the PDP premises.”
Okoronkwo was earlier featured in a video clip circulating online threatening that whoever did not have his party ID card or has no business to be at the party secretariat should not come around the Wadata House.
He had said: “If they are tired of the party, they can go to SDP, but anybody coming here to cause problems, where there is a case in the court, should prepare from his house before coming.
“Already I am ready.
“I am here with the men, everybody is here.
“If they are one billion, let them come.
“If you are coming here without a party ID card, you will not enter.
“If you don’t have business here, nobody will enter.”
Meanwhile, the PDP acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, chaired the party’s NWC meeting, with Ude-Okoye attending as the National Secretary.
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