A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Imo State has gone ahead to conduct the state congress of the party on Saturday, despite a federal High court of Owerri order stopping the exercise.
There was tension in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Saturday as the operatives of the state police command numbering over 200 with about 20 operational vehicles barricaded the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress.
APC secretariat, located at Imo State University junction in Owerri, including roads linking to the building, were blocked as the arms-bearing policemen guarded the area.
The policemen were believed to be acting on the instruction of the new state commissioner of police, Dasuki Galadanchi, to stop the APC state congress following the court order.
Our correspondent observed that while the stern-looking policemen maned the APC secretariat, all the officials of the…
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