{"id":167690,"date":"2025-06-30T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-take-over-pdp-secretariat-in-abuja"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:49:00","slug":"police-take-over-pdp-secretariat-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-take-over-pdp-secretariat-in-abuja","title":{"rendered":"Police take over PDP Secretariat in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>As tension continues to mount over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, which is expected to hold on Monday, armed policemen have taken over its secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official of the party who spoke to newsmen, the police were deployed to stop the proposed NEC Expanded Caucus Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Though some staff members of the party were initially allowed to go into the premises of the secretariat without any resistance from the police, they were later sent out.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of filing this report, journalists were also asked to leave the premises of the secretariat, while some policemen were seen cordoning off Dalaba Street, which is the road leading to Wadata Plaza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. As tension continues to mount over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, which is expected to hold on Monday, armed policemen have taken over its secretariat. According to an official of the party who spoke to newsmen, the police were deployed to stop the proposed NEC Expanded Caucus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-167690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police take over PDP Secretariat in Abuja - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-take-over-pdp-secretariat-in-abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police take over PDP Secretariat in Abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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