PDP Leadership Calls For Crucial Meeting With Stakeholders

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee ( NWC) will on Tuesday meet critical stakeholders in the party, including former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, former Senate president, David Mark, immediate past governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.

Others expected at the meeting, which is scheduled to hold at the National Secretariat, in Abuja, are the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), Adolphus Wabara, former Senate president, Bukola Saraki; Ahmed Markafi as well as select  members of the two chambers of the National Assembly.

A statement, issued by the PDP National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, said that a total of 183 leaders of the opposition party are expected at the parley.

Incumbent Governors were not invited to the meeting.

The statement said the meeting is “a consultative parley to enable the NWC brainstorm with the stakeholders over the state of affairs in the party.”

PDP was polarised in the aftermath of the presidential primary, which threw up Atiku as the candidate of the opposition party in the 2023 general election, with Wike leading four other governors to boycott the party’s campaign and other activities of the party.

After the election, the former PDP chairman, Iyorchia Ayu was suspended from the party, by his ward in Benue State. The suspension, which was affirmed by a Benue High Court, paved way for the emergence of the Deputy National Chairman ( North), Umar Damagun as acting chairman.

The parley would precede other meeting of the PDP organs including the National Executive Committee (NEC), which has not met since this year.

NP/ Mercy Chukwudiebere