Tanimu Turaki, the newly elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday vowed not to surrender the party to those he described as “outsiders.”
This came as both the Nyesom Wike and Tanimu Turaki groups took strategic positions inside the National Executive Committee (NEC) hall at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, each claiming control of the party.
Speaking on the escalating crisis, Turaki insisted he would not allow “outsiders” to take over the PDP.
“We won’t give up our secretariat to outsiders, and we shall defend it with our lives,” he declared.
As of the time of filing this report, Wike, Samuel Anyanwu, Governor Seyi Makinde, Turaki, and Governor Bala Mohammed were still occupying the hall, with both factions insisting on their legitimacy.
Bala Mohammed, speaking to journalists, blamed the crisis on what he described as an attempt by the Wike group to undermine the newly elected National Working Committee (NWC).
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According to him, “These people have been expelled, yet they are causing trouble for the party. Or do they want President Donald Trump of the United States to intervene in this matter?”
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