Barring any last-minute change, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction, loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, will meet in Abuja today.
The meeting, which is expected to be attended by PDP stakeholders, will review the state of affairs in the opposition party and “chart a way forward.”
Party sources say the Wike camp may constitute a caretaker committee to pilot the affairs of the PDP, pending the resolution of ongoing litigations on sundry issues in the opposition party.
Recall that the opposition party has been enmeshed in crisis in recent times, with the PDP Governors led by Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde and the FCT Minister at loggerheads over control of party machinery.
While the Umar Damagum-led National Working Committee (NWC), supported by the PDP Governors, held a convention in Ibadan last Monday and elected a new NWC headed by Tanimu Turaki, Wike’s loyalists dismissed the exercise as a nullity.
The Zonal Secretary of the PDP, South-South, George Turnah, confirmed the development to Sunday Sun in Abuja, yesterday.
Turnah said: “104th NEC meeting holds tomorrow (today. The BOT meeting, as usual, will precede the NEC meeting.”
Turnah, who described the convention held by the party in Ibadan, Oyo State, recently as illegal, stated that the gathering was illegal.
He added that leaders of the party have come together to save the party under the leadership of its Acting National Chairman, Abdulraham Mohammed.
“And tomorrow (today), there is a decisive BOT meeting and a NEC meeting because as the tenure of the present NWC wound down, party leaders must be decisive and we must take a decision that will save this party,” Turnah stated.
Today’s meeting is coming on the heels of December 8, when the tenure of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, headed by Umar Damagum, is originally expected to elapse.
