PDP postpones NEC meeting

The Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting earlier slated for May 3, 2017.

The NWC also announced that it has pulled out of the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s reconciliation move.

In a statement yesterday in Abuja by the PDP Deputy National Chairman, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, Sheriff said Jonathan lost control of the meeting he convened and allowed the “dissident Makarfiled group to continue with their anti-party activities.”

The statement said,

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the ruling party is determined to win the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State.

Chief Oyegun said this yesterday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, when he received the APC South East Zonal Committee for the Anambra 2017 governorship election. He said the Anambra State governorship election was a test case for the APCled federal government to bring the South East into the mainstream politics again to achieve power equation. According “We are opting out and focusing our efforts at making the party the darling of Nigerians again. We had made tremendous progress before former President Goodluck Jonathan was asked by party leaders to convene a meeting where stakeholders will adopt the Governor Dickson Committee report on reconciliation.

“All the organs of the party were already queuing up behind us and Jonathan came to unbundle the progress we made by his inability to control the meeting.

“We will not continue again but rather concentrate on rebuilding our party. We have also postponed the national executive committee meeting which we earlier fixed for May 3. A new date will be announced later,” he said.