BREAKING: Wike, Tambuwal, Other PDP Governors In Crucial Emergency Meeting [PHOTOS]
Governors of Nigeria’s opposition party, PDP, are currently in an emergency meeting at the Akwa Ibom State Government Lodge Asokoro Abuja, News Direct can report.
The meeting is believed too decide the fate of the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus. The embattled chairman arrived at the venue of the meeting a few minutes after 4 p.m.
Mr Secondus’ leadership recently came under fire from some members of the party.
They claimed that his poor management of the party led to the defection of many members of the party, including the governors of Ebonyi, Cross River and Zamfara States.
Some members of the party in the National Assembly and the Board of Trustees(BoT) also left the party for the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
The governors currently present includes Govenor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, Governor Ifeanyi A. Okowa of Delta State, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi State, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State.
Others are, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State, Gov Nyesom Ezenwo Wike – CON of Rivers State, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Governor Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and the host, Governor UDOM Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State.
Recall that a caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party at the House of Representatives had asked Secondus, to “honourably” resign from his position over poor leadership of the party.
At the PDP National Secretariat on Monday, some party members also held placards calling for Secondus’ resignation.
But in a short statement signed by his spokesperson, Ike Abonyi, the PDP Chairman said nothing, so far, warrants his resignation as National Chairman.
More details later…
