By Abiola Olawale
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has relocated its Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting to the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja’s Central Business District.
The development followed a dramatic police siege at the party’s Wadata Plaza headquarters.
The BoT meeting, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. at the PDP’s NEC Hall, was disrupted Monday morning when about 200 police officers and Civil Defence personnel stormed the secretariat, preventing entry.
However, in a press statement issued on Monday, PDP said: “The Meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) Meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) earlier scheduled to hold by 10am at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja has been moved to YarAdua Centre, Central Business District, Abuja.”
The party, which urged all BoT members to proceed to the new venue, faulted the takeover of its secretariat by armed policemen from the FCT Police Command.
The PDP described as harassment, the actions of the policemen who barred BoT members from accessing the secretariat for their meeting.
