By David Lawani, Abuja
The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) was taken over by gun welding policemen ahead of the inauguration by the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on Thursday.
ThisNigeria reports that the leadership of the party had massively deployed several security agents that took over Blantyre Street housing the secretariat.
This was due to fears that a protest might rock the inauguration due to the crises affecting many of the state chapters that produced parallel State executives.
The leadership of the party had on late Wednesday night issued a circular, ordering the Secretariat staff to stay away from work for fear of breakdown of law and order.
The deployment of the security agents had come as surprise to many of the staff when they were denied entry into the Secretariat on arrival in the early hours as they were unaware of the circular.
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Although the security agents were civil in screening the few pockets of persons allowed into the Secretariat premises, they had however grounded vehicular and human movements along with the entire Secretariat
Speaking to ThisNigeria, a security personnel attached to the party said: “You know we can’t afford to take chances. You know the kind of tension and crises the congresses that produced the state executives have been generating. If the national leadership didn’t take this security measure, there could be a breakdown of law and order with some of the disgruntled factions coming here to protest.”
