Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu on Friday met with the two feuding sides in the APC crisis and warned them to keep off the party’s national secretariat in Abuja for now.
Soon after the group opposed to Oshiomhole obtained an interim court order restraining him from parading himself as chairman, a Federal High Court in Kano issued an interim order that the status quo in the party be maintained.
The development did not sit well with the anti-Oshiomhole group which vowed to resist his planned return to the secretariat yesterday on Friday.
Each side armed with a court order went to the Force Headquarters, Abuja seeking police protection but the IG could only ask them to give peace a chance and keep off the party’s national secretariat for now.
Oshiomhole led a faction of the National Working Committee (NWC) to the meeting with the IG while the National Vice Chairman, North East, Comrade Salihu Mustapha led the other group.
With neither of them willing to shift its ground at the meeting, the IG directed that the two groups should stay away from the party Secretariat.
Consequently, a team from the DSS was sent to reinforce the police detachment already at the secretariat.
The building is currently under lock and key.