The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said a replacement for Adamu Mu’azu, would emerge after three months, as the party has granted three months to Prince Uche Secondus to act as the national chairman.
This was revealed by the Secretary of the BoT, Senator Walid Jubrin also said the Ike Ekweremadu Review Committee would embark on a tour of the chapters of the party to enable it obtain first hand some of the issues that led to the defeat of PDP at the general elections.
He urged members of the party to remain calm as PDP would soon rebound to take its rightful place as the main and true national political party in the country.
According to the BoT Secretary, “Our party is going to pick up again and we are going to rebound. 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 post mortem committee of the election that has taken place. We have to be very careful at handling such matter.
“We have to set up a road map, an action plan which we are planning to do. We have invited for memorandum and we are just getting the memorandum from every member of the party on the way forward which we have come here to discuss to help the committee, we are also planning a special tour to the various zones to meet with the stakeholders and discuss with them and find out anybody capable of writing a memorandum on what we face, and we are going to collect this by tomorrow when we will meet again to put all these things together and come up with a road map.”
Though, he said the party had approved the sharing of the office of minority leader and minority whip for members in the Senate and House of Representatives, he urged the PDP members in the National Assembly to be law abiding as the party would soon come out with the road map for the way forward.
On the opposition to Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Jubrin said: “The issue of the forum chairmanship has been resolved. There is no petition before the party on that. The BoT was not given any petition. I am telling you whatever the issue, the issue has been resolved already.”
The meeting was attended by some PDP governors, senators and former governors like Dr. Peter Odili, but immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the former chairman of the Board, Chief Tony Anenih were absent.
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