PDP In Crisis As Wike Faction Struggle Over Control of Party’s National Secretariat 

The two factions claiming the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are primed for a battle for the control of Wadata, Abuja National Secretariat of the party, today.

While the newly elected National Chairman, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has fixed the inaugural meeting of the new National Working Committee, NWC, at the secretariat, the faction loyal to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, has also scheduled an emergency Board of Trustees, BoT, and National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting at the same venue.

This was as former Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, likened the expulsion of some prominent members of PDP to a surgical procedure carried out to remove a cancerous tumor to give the patient a new lease of life.

Meanwhile, Turaki said yesterday that the party had formally notified the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, police command of its plan to reclaim and hold its inaugural NWC, meeting at the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, today.

Turaki disclosed this after he led other members of the newly elected NWC to a meeting with the FCT Commissioner of Police.

The visit, he explained, was part of the preparations for their first official meeting since the national elective convention in Ibadan.

The session is expected to bring together major stakeholders, including governors, National Assembly members, Board of Trustees, BoT, members, state chairmen, and founding leaders of the party.

“We are going to have the inaugural National Working Committee meeting of our party, the People’s Democratic Party, tomorrow.

“At this meeting, we have invited all our stakeholders and founding fathers. We’ve invited all our governors and members of the National Assembly, members of the Board of Trustees, our State Chairmen, and other critical stakeholders,” he said.