Supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday at the national secretariat engaged in physical fight over the call on the party’s national chairman to resign.
Those who were against the national chairman were seen protesting from the Valential Hotel area of Wuse 2, Abuja, when some Ganduje’s supporters at the Bubari House on No. 40, Blantyre Street, trying to stop the incoming protesters.
The protesters who ran for their lives later converged in an open location in Wuse 2, where their leader, Hamisu Suleiman Sardauna, called on critical stakeholders in the party to rescue the party .
Sardauna said: “We are peacemakers. We are members of this party so nobody can deny us justice. We are here for a peaceful protest but some thugs came around and beat our members. This is shameful.
“We are clamouring for justice. APC stakeholders must return the office of national chairman to the North Central. We are calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, goverors of the party, and other critical stakeholders to champion this cause in line with the provisions of APC constitution.”
Similarly, chairman of the APC Stakeholders’ Forum in Nasarawa State, Sani Ibrahim Jigas, said, “Adamu’s replacement ought to have come from the North Central. We are therefore calling on our stakeholders to ensure justice is done.”
He added, “Some of our members are now in the hospital because they were beaten by thugs a few minutes ago. Shame to whoever sent them to attack our members.”
