Nigeria, June 30 -- The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has relocated the venue of its meeting to the Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja's Central Business District after armed police officers prevented the members from accessing the party's national secretariat, Abuja.

The BoT members, who had arrived at the secretariat early Monday for the meeting, were denied access by security personnel, who barricaded the premises.

The Chairman of the BoT, Adolphus Wabara, condemned the cancellation of the NEC meeting on Thursday, insisting that the action was unconstitutional and a gross violation of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017).

About 12 members of the National Working Committee (NWC) had insisted that the NEC me...