Founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy, Udenta O. Udenta, has blamed the ongoing crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the actions of the Nigerian Police.

Gossip News Now reports that security operatives on Tuesday fired gunshots and released teargas to disperse a crowd at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja following a clash between two rival factions.

Speaking on the incident during an interview on Arise Television on Thursday, Udenta alleged that the Nigeria Police facilitated the factional takeover of the party headquarters.

He explained that the son of the newly elected PDP chairman, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), had earlier notified the police of an alleged plot to seize the secretariat and was assured that no such incident would occur.

“Yet they allowed the Anyanwu faction to enter at 5:00 a.m. while the police watched,” Udenta said. “The police are complicit because if they had sealed off the place from the beginning, the country would not have witnessed that unfortunate spectacle.”

He further condemned the excessive force used by security operatives, alleging that officers fired “over 200 canisters of tear gas” at sitting governors, former governors, and senior party leaders.

“You know what happened to Chiroma in Kano years ago—he didn’t survive tear gas,” he added, accusing a particular Deputy Commissioner of Police of supervising the operation.