After obtaining a court injunction on Friday, Abuja police officials have shut down the head office of the New PDP, a break-away group that started after a protest at PDP special convention in Abuja few days ago.
Hours after the closure, Atiku/Baraje-Led group has condemn the action taken by the police.
In an official statement released by the national secretary of the new PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola said security forces were mobilized to seal off the office on Saturday based on a non-existent court injunction which the Tukur faction claimed to have
obtained on Friday.
"The whole world knows that Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday refused to grant Alhaji Bamanga Tukur's application for an ex parte injunction against our party's executive. The Judge asked parties to maintain the status quo. His judgement was a reinforcement of an early order of the Lagos High Court which also asked parties to maintain the status quo. Now, should Nigerians conclude that Tukur's interpretation of status quo is this crude display of naked power and undisguised impunity?" the statement read.
"We are not at all surprised at this occurrence given the fact that Tukur issued a statement on Friday evening deliberately seeking to mislead the media and the public that Justice Chukwu granted him an injunction against us. We are happy that the ever vigilant Nigerian press ignored him and his falsehood. Now, he is not only willfully disobeying the various courts which have made pronouncements on this matter, he is spicing up his love for impunity with this reckless misuse of state power by misleading the police.," the statement continued.
The statement called for the immediate removal of policemen from their office.
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