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Nigeria: Excluded PDP BoT Members in Return Bid
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This Day (Lagos)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Chuks Okocha
Abuja
Today's Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) promises to be stormy as formerly excluded members are staging a return bid.
This came as some members are questioning the rationale behind Obasanjo's summoning of the meeting, as they described it as diversionary.
Following threats of violence and invasion by some old members, the venue of the meeting has also been shifted to the Aso Rock Villa.
THISDAY gathered that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, as the political leader of PDP, had directed the National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, to ensure that former members who were wrongly excluded are made to return to the BoT chaired by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
A source told THISDAY that President Yar'Adua in a meeting two ago had directed that all members of the BoT who were frustrated by the Ahmadu Ali-led executive should be re-admitted.
Some of the excluded members expected at the meeting include former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na'Abba and Alhaji Isiyaku Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, confirming the development, told THISDAY that some of his colleagues who were excluded would make a return bid in line with the directive of the President.
According to PDP sources, the President had directed Ogbulafor on the development in line with the reconciliatory mood in the party.
THISDAY gathered that the directive did not go down well with the BoT Chairman, Obasanjo, who in directing the Secretary of the Board, former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu, to summon a meeting, insisted that the meeting is specifically for BOT members.
Accordingly, Adamu in the advertisement had stressed that the meeting was strictly for members only.
However, Ibrahim said as far as the invitation to the meeting was concerned, the notice did not state whether new or old members were requested to attend.
He said: ìAll members of the BoT are invitedî, as the President had already directed that old members who were excluded be re-admitted.
Isiyaku in querying the rationale behind the meeting asked: ìWhat is the meeting out to archieve if not diversionary. Does Obasanjo have the morale rectitude to call for a BoT meeting of PDP when he is directly accused of wasting over $16 billion meant for electricity?
ìWhat purpose does the BoT meeting intend to archive now? How does the meeting want to address the waste of $16billion?î
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According to him, ìIf Obasanjo has any sense of morality in him, he should quit and apologise to Nigerians.î
He also said he would be leading a team of the members to boycott the meeting, as nothing good was expected to come out of the meetings.
The National Caucus meeting of the party comes up immediately after the BoT meeting at 11 pm.
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