*National caucus meets April 17
*Appoints caretaker committees in 20 states, LGAs, wards
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved April 18,2024, for the 98th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party.
The NEC meeting comes after the meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) on the same date, Thursday, April 18, 2024.
In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the BoT meeting would hold at the NEC Hall of the PDP National Secretariat at 10a.m. after which the NEC meeting would commence at 2p.m. at the same venue.
Consequently, he said the meeting of the National Caucus of the party has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
The NWC urged all members of NEC, BoT and the National Caucus to please take note of the scheduled dates accordingly. The last NEC meeting of the party took place in October 2022.
Succession issues like replacement for the suspended National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu and several issues may top the agenda of the long overdue NEC meeting.
An Abubakar Atiku associate, Segun Showumi, had dragged the PDP to court urging the court to mandate the party to summon a NEC meeting. As at press time, the matter is in the court and has suffered several adjournments.
Also, the NWC of the PDP yesterday appointed caretaker committees for 20 states executive councils that their tenure of offices had expired
Tuesday this week, the NWC of the PDP served notices to all the states, local governments councils and ward executives that their tenure of offices have expired.
A statement by Ologunagba, said that the sack of the states and local governments executive committees was in “pursuant to the provisions of Section 29 (2) (b) of the Constitution of our party on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC), approved the appointment of the Executives whose tenures have expired in some State, Local Government and Ward chapters to serve as Caretaker Committees in the affected states, LGAs and Wards respectively.”
The Caretaker Committees, Ologunagba said, had been mandated to run the affairs of the party at their appropriate levels for a period of three months.
According to him, the states involved are Abia; Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross River,
Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Niger, Ondo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto and Taraba.
The NWC also charged all leaders, critical stakeholders and members of the party to continue to work together to ensure the stability, growth and success of the PDP in their respective states, local government areas and wards.
