More than 2000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party from Rivers State stormed the national headquarters of the party in Abuja to protest the alleged plan by the party and the Presidency to foist a former Minister of State(Education), Mr. Nyesom Wike on them as the party’s governorship candidate in the state.
The protesters also complained against perceived injustice meted out on them during the last saturday PDP House of Assembly primaries in the state.
The protesters were said to have started arriving the secretariat as early as 6:30am and took over the entire premises of the secretariat even before the arrival of its members of staff.
Various placards were carried with inscriptions such as “Wike can’t be our Governor”, “We want clearance to contest 2015 elections”, “Give us back our money”, “We are tired of a two-man state exco”, “Felix Obuh must go”, “Wike has bought the soul of River PDP”, “Criminals have been cleared to be PDP aspirants in River State”, among others.
They also sang different war songs as they clustered in front of the party secretariat.
Policemen, who were mobilised to the scene, looked with awe as the protesters erected a pavilion with which they blocked the entrance to the building.
The more than 70 policemen, were led by two assistant commissioners.
National Woman Leader of the party, Chief Kema Chikwe, who attempted to speak with the protesters around 1:47pm, was harassed and escorted out of the troubled zone by the police.
The protest made members of the NWC of the party and their staff to stay away from office.
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