This step, which was noticed on Sunday, was said to have been carried out by the police to prevent the breakdown of law and order at the secretariat.
A former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, was reportedly removed as the PDP national chairman at the party’s convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday.
Sheriff, however, described his removal and the sacking of the members of the National Working Committee as a nullity.
Constitutionally, the ex-Borno State governor’s tenure expires on Saturday.
But some officers of the party, like the National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, and the National Auditor, Adewole Adeyanju, including Sheriff, are in court, contesting their tenure.
They had secured a court order, restraining the party from filling their offices at the Port Harcourt convention.
Sheriff said the court action and the claim by the Independent National Electoral Commission that it would not monitor election into the above three offices were part of the reasons why he called off the convention.
He said he and members of his NWC were to meet at the party secretariat on Sunday.
Our correspondent gathered, however, that the policemen were deployed in the secretariat to prevent Sheriff and some members of his sacked NWC from meeting at the secretariat.
Sheriff had said the emergency meeting of his NWC would hold at the secretariat on Sunday (yesterday).
No fewer than 30 armed policemen, who were led by an assistant superintendent of police, Mr. Ime Obot, prevented journalists from entering or coming close to the two-storeyed building.
Five security vehicles were packed around the building.
Two trucks were used to block the road in front of the secretariat.
One of the trucks, with number plate NPF 5209C, was used to block the road from the headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Three other vehicles, including a Hilux van, were used to block the back gate of the building which is used by the party’s national officers, especially the national chairman.
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