Caucus meeting concluded, NEC meeting underway as scheduled: PDP chairman
The Peoples Democratic Party said its National Executive Committee meeting will hold on Tuesday (today) as scheduled.
The party’s Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, stated this while addressing journalists after the PDP Extraordinary Caucus Meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja.
“We just finished the extraordinary caucus meeting. We are moving to Legacy House for our NEC meeting. I think it will be proper for us to address you immediately after we finish the NEC meeting,” Mr Damagum said.
The 99th NEC meeting has been scheduled for 2.00 p.m. at the party’s presidential campaign office, Legacy House, in the Maitama District of Abuja.
The meeting had earlier been fixed for the party’s national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja.
It was, however, changed to Legacy House, following the closure of the national secretariat by the Federal Capital Territory Administration due to 28 years of unpaid ground rent.
As of the time this report was filed, members of the NEC had started arriving at the venue of the meeting expected to address critical issues affecting the party, including strategies for upcoming political engagements.
The NEC, one of the highest decision-making organs of the PDP, comprises the national chairman and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC).
State governors; serving and former presidents; former vice presidents; the chairman and secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT); principal officers of the National Assembly; state chairpersons; former governors; and founding members, among others, are also members of NEC.
At the extraordinary caucus meeting held at the Bauchi State governor’s lodge were the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Senator Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, and Governors Ademola Adeleke of Osun State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State.
Others were the BoT Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara; BoT Secretary, Ahmed Makarfi; a former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki; and a BoT member, Bode George.
A former National Chairman Uche Secondus, Chairman of the PDP South-South Caretaker Committee Emmanuel Ogidi, NWC members and some former governors were also in attendance.
(NAN)
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