The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken it upon itself to guide its members in the National Assembly to select the principal officers due it.
The party’s trustees have initiated moves to stave off possible disagreements in the choice of minority slots in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The slots include the Minority Leader, Deputy Minority Leader, Minority Whip and Deputy Minority Whip.
According to a source, the move is to avoid the disagreements within the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Rising from a meeting at the party’s national secretariat yesterday, the BoT members said they were in the process of putting the party back on track.
Addressing reporters after the meeting, BoT Secretary Walid Jubril said the party leadership would work in synergy with its members in the National Assembly.
Jubril said: “The Board of Trustees is up to the task of providing guidance not only to the party executives but to members of the National Assembly. That is why we have involved ourselves to ensure that there is synergy among our members in the National Assembly.
“We are calling on all our members to remain calm. We are doing all our best to ensure sanity is restored. Our party is going to rise again.
“As we are doing so, we need their cooperation and without their cooperation, I do not think we will succeed. Let them give us time so that we can do our best to ensure that we bring back the prominence of this party.”
The BoT scribe added that the party would set a road map and action plan to handle issues arising from its defeat in the last general elections.
The committee, he said, had sought for and obtained an extension of up to 10 weeks to enable it complete its assignment.
He affirmed the choice of Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, saying issues arising from Mimiko’s emergence had been resolved.
The meeting was presided over by the Acting BoT chairman, Dr. Mohammed Bello Haliru. Also at the meeting were Senator Ike Ekweremadu; Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwabo; former Senate President Ken Nnamani; Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu; Acting Chairman Uche Secondus, among others. – The Nation.
