There was pandemonium in the early hours of Monday as aggrieved stakeholders and party faithful stormed the State Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River state to protest against the alleged automatic ticket that the party has granted some class of persons in the party.

Vanguard reports that the aggrieved members who came in their thousands are protesting against the plans by the PDP at the national to give aspirants especially National Assembly members automatic ticket.

According to Vanguard, two supporters were shot at the venue of the protest (PDP Secretariat) following a disagreement among party members but were immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment.

The placard-carrying protesters/members who stormed the Party Secretariat at 42a Muritala Mohammed Highway in Calabar decried the planned move by the party at the national to impose a candidate on them.

It was observed from various inscriptions on the placard like “reverse automatic ticket”, ”PDP going going Gone”, RIP PDP, Let us go to the field” among others decried the fact that many of the aspirants who have been purportedly given automatic ticket have already served more than one term.

They called on the National Chairman, Mr. Uche Secondus to as a matter of urgency look into the matter by reversing the automatic ticket and calling other aggrieved party members to a roundtable before it is too late.

•Sourced from a Vanguard report