Four Armored Vehicles Moved To PDP Hqt Over Oyinlola's Reinstatement

 

Four armoured vehicles were last night deployed in the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), following the tension generated by the reinstatement of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as national secretary.

President Goodluck Jonathan is said to have directed that Oyinlola should be reinstated, but this has pitted the Bamanga Tukur faction of the PDP against the New PDP headed by Alhaji Kawu Baraje.

But the National Publicity Secretary of the mainstream PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, last night stated that Jonathan did not issue such a directive.

Metuh said: “There is no such directive and that is not how the party works. As I speak to you, there is no directive whatsoever from the President. I will issue a statement on Monday (today).

“ We have not even got a copy of the judgment of the court, let alone talking about reinstatement. You see, the so-called New PDP engages in over-dramatisation of issues. Rather than taking up issues with them, we have decided to focus on our work at the secretariat.”

There was a heavy security build-up at the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat over plans by Oyinlola to resume duties today to press home last Wednesday’s Court of Appeal judgment which quashed his sack and ordered his return to office.

Four armoured vehicles and some policemen were deployed in Wadata Plaza in Zone 5 in Abuja where the National Secretariat is located.

It was learnt that the deployment of policemen was a pre-emptive measure against any breakdown of law and order