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Nigeria: BOT Chairman - Obj to Lose Position
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Leadership (Abuja)
26 November 2007
Posted to the web 26 November 2007
Chuks Ohuegbe
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo's stranglehold on the affairs of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may soon be over, as the national executive committee of the party, which is its highest decision- making organ, has ordered the re-composition of the party's Board of Trustees (BOT).
The unilateral amendment of the party's constitution at the 2006 convention of the party, made the former president the only eligible candidate for the exalted office of chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT).
Besides, the amendments also vested on the office of BOT chairman executive responsibilities which includes, charting policy directions, monitor the executive and sanction erring officials, among others.
Last Friday's NEC meeting of PDP deliberated on the Dr. Alex Ekwueme reconciliation committee report and adopted it.
The Ekwueme committee set up by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to reconcile aggrieved members of the party had recommended that, "the recent re-composition of the Board of Trustees (BOT) should be revisited and efforts made to right the wrong."
Furthermore, the report said that "many members who appeared before the committee took strong exception to the amendment of the party's constitution carried out during the 2006 convention.
"Some members who appeared before the committee expressed strong reservation about the amendment which seeks to reserve the position of the chairman of BOT for a former president.
"Party members, leaders and elders who appeared before the committee condemned in very strong terms the recent reconstitution of the BOT. They insist that the original members be reinstated," the report further stated.
The Ekwueme report which had survived general attempts to sweep it under the carpet, by forces loyal to the former president, LEADERSHIP gathered, was unanimously approved by the NEC.
Curiously, former President Obasanjo was absent at last week's crucial NEC meeting.
The unanimity of the approval even in the presence of the die-hard supporters of Chief Obasanjo at the NEC, is believed in some quarters that the paty would soon move against the former president.
Former President Obasanjo ousted Chief Tony Anenih, the then BOT chairman in a clandestine manner, also believed to be unconstitutional.
Obasanjo occupying the office is also believed to have violated the power equation in the party, as since 1999 the president and the BOT chairman always come from either the geo-political north or south.
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The intra-party squabbles in PDP are believed to have largely accounted for why its congresses and convention were indefinitely postponed.
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