The Board of Trustees (BOT) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced in a statement today that it had not sacked the National Caretaker Committee (NCC), contrary to several media reports.
The PDP has been in the midst of an intense leadership crisis following the conclusion of BOT Chairman Modu Sheriff’s term and attempts by him to remain in power. The PDP admits in its statement that there is a “leadership crisis” but assets that the BOT is mediating the fallout.
SaharaReporters reported yesterday the BOT Chairman of the Trustees Senator Walid Jibrin and the Secretary Ojo Maduekwe met with PDP members in Abuja.
According to Chinwe Nnorom, the Head of the PDP Publicity Division who distributed this statement, said “the Board of Trustees is responding to the contradictory Court Orders against the National Caretaker Committee and the dissolved National Working Committee (NWC) in order not to leave vacuum occasioned by the said Court Orders.”
He continued saying, “this action of taken over the National Secretariat by the BoT began on Tuesday May 31, 2016 pursuant to Part ix, Section (5)(e) of the Party Constitution (As Amended in 2012) which empowers the BoT as the only Organ of the Party vested with the assets and custodians of such assets.”
Mr. Nnorom reiterated that “there is no section of the PDP Constitution that bequeath executive powers or authority to the Board of Trustees.”