The embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus may have gotten a new lifeline after leaders of the party fixed the end of October for the national elective convention.
Africa Today News, New York understands that although the tenure of the incumbent National Working Committee, NWC, was due to elapse on December 6, stakeholders of the party made up of 13 governors, the Board of Trustees, and other organs of the party, brought the convention forward in what is seen as a move to appease anti-Secondus forces who have been pushing for his removal in the past few months.
Addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting which lasted for two and a half hours, Sokoto state governor and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Tambuwal, said a National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting will hold next week, after which a convention planning committee will be constituted.
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‘This meeting has agreed that immediately a NEC meeting should be convened for the party to constitute the national convention planning committee and the national convention should be held latest by the end of October.
‘As party members of the BoT, members of the governor forum, members of former governors forum, former ministers, former Senators, former Presiding officer of the National Assembly and various stakeholders, we are very happy to announce that we have discussed all matters and we have resolved to continue to work as a united family.
‘Also, the zoning committee for the party should also be constituted by the same NEC immediately,’ he said, adding that ‘the NEC of the party shall meet most likely next week and all the issues will be addressed.’
Secondus in his capacity as chairman of the party will convene the NEC meeting, Governor Tambuwal announced.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK