PDP Warns Police In opposition to Opening Secretariat To Wike-Led Faction

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned safety businesses towards granting entry to its Nationwide Secretariat to expelled members, insisting the property stays the topic of pending litigation earlier than the courts.

This warning comes after stories {that a} faction of the get together loyal to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike, plans to take over the get together’s headquarters subsequent Monday.

THE WHISTLER stories that the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC just lately recognised the Wike-led PDP faction, permitting its representatives to attend the fee’s first quarterly stakeholders’ assembly with political events in 2026.

Following the assembly, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Nationwide Secretary of the PDP Nationwide Caretaker Committee of the Wike-led faction, reportedly acknowledged, “By subsequent Monday, we’ll take over the PDP headquarters.”

Responding in an announcement signed by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong on Friday, the get together mentioned it had obtained info that some expelled members had been allegedly planning to “both forcibly or in connivance with safety forces acquire entry to and occupy our Nationwide Secretariat and different get together property.”

The PDP disclosed that it had formally written to the Inspector General of Police and the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, stressing that the secretariat “continues to be a res earlier than the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Abuja, and the Courtroom of Appeal.”

The assertion cautioned that “any try to enter and occupy these property can be a resort to self-help and an affront to the time-tested precept of legislation that events who’ve submitted to the jurisdiction of courts mustn’t act in methods that may render worthless, the powers of the Courtroom.”

In keeping with the get together, the case earlier than Justice Joyce Abdulmalik was instituted by the expelled members themselves, including that “they can’t resort to self-help, till judgment is delivered within the matter.”

The PDP additional reminded all events, notably the Nigeria Police Power, which it mentioned is joined within the swimsuit, that “any motion taken to grant entry to anyone, pending the willpower of the swimsuit, is a contempt of the courtroom.”

“We guarantee that we’ll deploy all authorized means to defend our property from trespass.

“Duty for any harm to individuals or injury to property arising therefrom needs to be positioned solely on the aggressors and their safety collaborators,” they warned.