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The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a dramatic turn on Monday when a faction loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), seized control of the party’s National Headquarters, located at Wadata Plaza, Abuja.
Amid internal turmoil within the party, the Wike faction appointed Muhammed Abdulrahman as acting chairman after suspending Umar Damagum.
Prior to the development, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party under Damagum had suspended Samuel Anyanwu and other officials loyal to Wike.
While addressing journalists in Abuja, the factional acting Chairman, Abdulrahman, said his mission was to reunite the party.
He, however, later moved into the Secretariat, where he held his first meeting with Anyanwu and other officials of the Wike camp.
With supporters of the two camps at the party’s headquarters, police had been deployed to the area, with at least 10 Hilux vans, to prevent any clash between the two camps.
