By Jude Opara
The crisis rocking the Social Democratic Party (SDP) deepened on Thursday when the two rival factions clashed at the National Secretariait of the opposition party.
Trouble started early in the afternoon when the former National Chairman, Shehu Gabam stormed the party secretariat with some Policemen ostensibly to force out the National Chairman, Prof. Abubakar Sadiq Gombe.
It was gathered that Gabam and his supporters arrived the party secretariat with police officers and chased away the internal security details there.
However, Agunloye was said to have called the FCT Commissioner of Police who sent a detachment of officers who came to the office and took over the premises.
The fierce looking Policemen led by the Wuse Divisional Police Officer chased away all the officers and staff of the party including the National Secretariait, Dr. Olu Agunloye.
Speaking to newsmen, Agunloye said the whole scenario was unexpected because with just two days to the party’s planned National Convention of the party in Bauchi, the party received a letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), inviting them for a possible Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with the Gabam group.
He said it was curious that the same INEC that has been monitoring the party’s ward congresses and also preparing for the Bauchi convention was in inviting them to a meeting on Friday when they were supposed to be traveling.
“I was in my office trying to reply a letter we got from INEC when these people stormed the Secretariait with their thugs and forcefully pulled down the gate”.
However, at press time, it was not clear if the planned National Convention in Bauchi will still hold.
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