The All Progressives Congress (APC)
nationwide secretariat in Abuja was thrown right into a state of pandemonium on Thursday as suspected thugs descended on a gaggle of protesters who stormed the social gathering’s headquarters demanding the resignation of its nationwide chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The anti-Ganduje agitators have been all of the sudden attacked by the suspected thugs who carried sticks, destroyed their banners, placards and beat them up as they approached the APC nationwide secretariat.
The protesters, who scampered for security, later converged on an open location in Wuse 2, the place their chief, Hamisu Suleiman Sardauna, requested vital stakeholders within the social gathering to take away Ganduje for the chairmanship slot to return to the North-Central zone consistent with the APC zoning association of 2022.
“We’re peacemakers. We’re members of this social gathering, so no one can deny us justice. We’re right here for a peaceable protest however some thugs got here round and beat our members. That is shameful.
“We’re clamouring for justice. APC stakeholders should return the workplace of nationwide chairman to the North-Central. We’re calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, goverors of the social gathering, and different vital stakeholders to champion this trigger consistent with the provisions of APC structure,” he stated.
On his half, chairman of the APC Stakeholders’ Discussion board in Nasarawa State, Sani Ibrahim Jigas, stated former nationwide chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu’s alternative should have come from the North-Central, calling on APC stakeholders to make sure justice was executed.
On the assault on their group, Jigas stated: “A few of our members at the moment are within the hospital as a result of they have been overwhelmed by thugs a couple of minutes in the past. Disgrace to whoever despatched them to assault our members.”