A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Nasarawa State have shut down the State Secretariat, barring party officials from gaining access to their offices.
The group stormed the PDP Secretariat along Jos Road in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, locked the main gate of the building and stopped anyone entering.
One of the members of the group, Mr. Adams Musa, said their action was to prevent the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Party in the State, Mr. Francis Orogu, from addressing the media on the outcome of the State High Court judgment presided over by Justice Mustapha Ramat, in Akwanga LGA of the State.
The court had nullified the ward and local government congresses of the party recently held in the State.
The protesting PDP members chased out lournalists who were at the Secretariat waiting for the arrival of the State party chairman and other officials to address them.
However, Orogu later addressed the press at his private residence, disclosing that he and his colleagues would appeal the judgment.
He insisted that he remained the Caretaker Committee Chairman of PDP in Nasarawa State as directed by the national secretariat of the party.
Meanwhile, security personnel have been deployed to the area to check any breakdown of law and order.
