Having
continued to enjoy a successful career with the round leather game, Football,
Nigerian Super Eagles player, Onazi Ogenyi Eddy, is set to have a blissful
union with his long time lover, Sandy.
The Player is
currently on his way for his traditional marriage and has fellow player, Jude
Ighalo, accompany him down there.
The self
appointed leader of the Concerned Peoples Democratic Party Youths (CPDPY),
Aderemi Olusegun, yesterday, proclaimed himself as the national chairman of the
party.
Olusegun, who,
Tuesday, gave one week notice to the national leaders of the party to resolve
their differences, yesterday, stormed the PDP secretariat of the party, in
Abuja, and took over the building.
Olusegun
warned the embattled chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and the
caretaker chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, not to go close to the secretariat.
The PDP
national secretary and national auditor, Professor Wale Oladipo and Adewole
Adeyanju, respectively, who were part of the National Working Committee (NWC)
members sacked recently in Port Harcourt, narrowly escaped being lynched by the
angry youths, who discovered that the two officials remained seated in their
office at the secretariat.
Our
correspondent, who monitored the entire drama, observed that the two officials
of the party, having understood the implication and gravity of the protest
inside the secretariat, attempted to go out secretly, but were trapped by the
angry protesters.
Some of the
protesters declared that Oladipo and Adeyanji must be dealt with for remaining
in their office along with Sheriff, after the expiration of their tenure.
They claimed
this was a move to destroy the party ahead of the Edo, Ondo states governorship
election and the 2019 general elections.
Our
correspondent overheard Oladipo begging the youths, saying: “Allow me to go,
please. I won’t come back again.”
By 1:38pm,
Oladipo’s vehicle was sneaked out through the back gate of the secretariat and,
in few minutes time, the former officials were smuggled out of the
tension-laden building, to the nearby Sky Memorial building, from where they
escaped.
However,
Adeyanju’s blue Toyota Camry, with registration number Lagos APP 767CK was left
inside the secretariat.
After the duo
had left, the youths announced the takeover of the secretariat and called on
the Board of Trustees (BoT) to organise a convention within three days to elect
new leaders of the party.
They locked
all the doors into the main party offices and handed over the keys to the BoT
Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, around 3:13pm.
Justifying
what they did, Olusegun, who is in his late 30s, said: “In view of all the
happenings in the PDP, I hereby declare myself as acting chairman of the party.
“Both Sheriff
and Makarfi should stay away from the party’s secretariat from this moment.”
However, a
source within the party, told the Daily Trust that as soon as he returned,
Sheriff, who was in Maiduguri, would go to the office.
A statement
issued by Inuwa Bwala, the special adviser on media to Sheriff’, yesterday,
alleged that the youth protest, which he described as “an act of hooliganism
and brigandage,” was organised by the “illegal” caretaker committee headed by
Makarfi.
Meanwhile,
yesterday, in the evening (5:27pm), some youth, chanting pro-Sheriff slogan,
broke into the secretariat building after destroying the gates.
The security
operatives attached to the secretariat, who were present, watched helplessly.
