A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Bode George, has described the party as an Iroko tree.
George made the remark while disclosing that the policemen who besieged the PDP’s National Secretariat in Abuja and prevented members from meeting said the order came from above.
The BoT could not hold at the Secretariat because policemen prevented members from sitting.
But the FCT Police Command had denied sealing off the Secretariat.
However, George said despite the disruption, the PDP is not dead, stressing that those with such claims are dreamers.
Responding to claims that the PDP is dead on Channels Television’s Politics Today, George said: “No way; those are dreamers. I’m telling you they are first-class dreamers.
“In political management, ownership structure, camaraderie—what we have in the PDP, they don’t have.”
He noted further that the former ruling party is “the Iroko political party of Nigeria, its roots remain deep and intact” despite recent challenges.
According to George: “It was disgraceful, It’s like going back to your home, and suddenly it’s surrounded by police. I thought, what in the globe is happening?
“The police officers were not rough, they were civil, when I asked what was happening if they had a court order? But they just said sir we are on orders, so I went into the building, I went upstairs from there I left for the meeting rescheduled at the Yar’Adua Centre.
“I was so furious about what is going on, who is the order from above? That’s what we kept asking until we got to NEC meeting and I’m sure that will never happen again because it has never happened.
“We then concluded that this was part of the crisis we have been going through and this experience we are having are loads of lessons for party members.”