Vehicular movement was grounded for a few hours on Tuesday at Blantyre Street, Wuse, Abuja, the location of the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Party faithful stormed the Buhari House in protest, demanding the removal of the Chairman of the party in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abdulmalik Usman.
The protesters who carried placards with inscriptions, “Oath of office can only be taken twice, APC FCT chairman, Abdul Malik Usman, has taken an oath of office twice, it is impunity to keep him, “FCT Congress 2021 must be recognised, “FCT APC chairman must go for refusal to accept the new party executive of FCT!!!”, forced their way into the party secretariat but were prevented from having access to the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
One of the protesters shouted at the top of his voice, saying, “We want to see Adamu. He must stop the impunity by ensuring that Abdulmalik is not sworn in the third time. If he fails to address us it means that he has collected money from the PDP so that APC will lose FCT again in the 2023 elections.”
They were however dispersed by security details of the APC National Chairman who sought and secured reinforcement from the FCT Police Command.
The APC chairman of FCT, Abdulmalik Usman, when contacted said: “It is not true, if they have issues, let them come out with them, if they are talking of tenure, they don’t know it. Am I the only person whose tenure has expired?
“We have about 31 executives, so they would have said the tenure of the entire executives has expired. They don’t even know what is called tenure. The people talking are not even members of APC, they are PDP members who pretend to be APC, if truly they are APC members, what the party is talking about currently is how to win the election.
“We had a meeting with the Minister of State for FCT on the issue of some persons pretending to be EXCO leaders. We are going to investigate those behind the protest whether are members of our party or not. There is a constitutional way of handling the such matter,” he stated.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh did not respond to the text message sent to her, for clarification on the incident, at the time of filling the report.
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