<h4>Wike Group Takes Over PDP National Secretariat</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> reports that early yesterday, November 17, two factions claimed the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ostensibly primed for a battle for the control of Wadata, Abuja National Secretariat of the party, today.</p>
<p>While the newly elected National Chairman, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has fixed the inaugural meeting of the new National Working Committee, NWC, at the secretariat for today, Novemeber 18, the faction loyal to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, has also scheduled an emergency Board of Trustees, BoT, and National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting at the same venue today, November 18.</p>
<p>To demonstrate seriousness, the newly elected Turaki executives gave an advanced notice to the commissioner of Police yesterday in Abuja, vowing to maintain the law but resist “impostors.”</p>
<p>Speaking to news men, Turaki said yesterday that the party had formally notified the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, police command of its plan to reclaim and hold its inaugural NWC, meeting at the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, today.<br />
The visit, he explained, was part of the preparations for their first official meeting since the national elective convention in Ibadan.</p>
<figure id="attachment_31145" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-31145" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-medium wp-image-31145" src="https://openlife.ng/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Wadata-300x169.webp" alt="Wike Group Takes Over PDP National Secretariat, Prays {Video}" width="300" height="169" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-31145" class="wp-caption-text"><em><strong>PDP Headquarters</strong></em></figcaption></figure>
<p>The session is expected to bring together major stakeholders, including governors, National Assembly members, Board of Trustees, BoT, members, state chairmen, and founding leaders of the party.<br />
“We are going to have the inaugural National Working Committee meeting of our party, the People’s Democratic Party, tomorrow.</p>
<p>“At this meeting, we have invited all our stakeholders and founding fathers. We’ve invited all our governors and members of the National Assembly, members of the Board of Trustees, our State Chairmen, and other critical stakeholders,” he said.</p>
<p>The PDP chairman said the leadership reached out to the police following what he described as attempts by ‘expelled’ members to circulate notices of BoT and NEC meetings on social media, insisting those behind the moves no longer have any authority within the party.</p>
<p>“Now, we have seen things flying in the social media, a purported notice of BOT and NEC meeting given by people who, for all intents and purposes, are no longer members of this party,” he said. He emphasised that the National Convention remains the highest decision-making body of the PDP and had already ruled on the status of those individuals.</p>
<p>“Next to <strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">God</a></strong>, in the management of political parties is the National Convention. The decision taken in a National Convention overrides every other decision that has been taken by any organ of a party.<br />
“Our National Convention has taken a decision to expel these elements from the party. And so, they are no longer members of our party,” Turaki stated.</p>
<p>Responding to questions about the status of Wadata Plaza, which has recently been under lock, Turaki maintained that the PDP would return to the secretariat unhindered.<br />
“We are holding the meeting in our<a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/"> National Secretariat,</a> which is the Wadata House, and anybody that is sitting there without our consent and permission is an interloper.</p>
<p>“We are going there, we’ll have the offices opened, we’ll get in there, and then begin to perform the functions for which we’ve been elected,” he said. Turaki explained that while the PDP would avoid confrontation, its leaders would not shy away from defending themselves if threatened.</p>
<p>“I have assured the Commissioner of Police of the FCT that while we will ensure that no breach of the peace occurs, we will go there prepared to defend ourselves and our integrity as Nigerians because the Nigerian Constitution has given us the right to defend our persons, our lives, our properties.</p>
<p>“And let me reiterate again for the avoidance of doubt: to defend our party, to defend this nascent democracy, we are prepared to lay down our lives,” he said.<br />
According to him, the NWC will arrive at the secretariat by 10 a.m. for the meeting.</p>
<p>“Our meeting is at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Circulars have gone out. We shall be there unfailingly. I, as the National Chairman of PDP, will be leading from the front, not from the rear,” he said.<br />
Turaki added that the FCT Commissioner of Police had promised to provide adequate security to ensure a peaceful exercise.</p>
<p>“The CP has given us assurance that they will do everything it takes to ensure that there is no breakdown of law and order. We hope that the police will make sure that they give us all the ample protection that we’re entitled to under the law, and that assurance we’ve got. So, we shall be there,” he said.</p>
<p><strong>Wike Announces</strong></p>
<p>However, the faction of the party loyal to the FCT has scheduled BoT and NEC meetings today at NEC Hall, PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja.<br />
While the BoT meeting will be held at 11am, that of the NEC is fixed for 2pm.</p>
<p>In a special announcement inviting members to the 103rd emergency NEC meeting, National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who was expelled at the Ibadan convention, said “attendance is very important as crucial matters will be discussed and addressed.”</p>
<p>However, as early as 7.30 am Tuesday, Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, the national secretary of Wike’s faction arrived the secretariate and had unhindered access. Announcing his take over of the secretariate, Anyanwu wrote:</p>
<p><em><strong>“Arriving at the national secretariat of our great party, Wadata plaza Abuja for today’s BoT and NEC meeting,”</strong> </em>he disclosed.</p>
<p>Below is the video</p>
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