The crucial National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold on March 13, according to governors of the party who announced the date after a meeting of the forum in Delta State.
The meeting, attended by all governors of the party except Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Peter Mbah of Enugu State, resolved that the much-awaited NEC meeting would hold on March 13.
The meeting, which was also attended by the Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Iliyasu Umar Damagum, would likely decide the fate of the chairman.
Damagum, the party’s deputy national chairman, became national chairman of the PDP after a court sacked the substantive chairman, Iyiorchia Ayu.
A NEC meeting to decide a substantive chairman for the party could not hold due to series of court cases.
Besides, a Federal High Court in Abuja restrained the NEC and Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party from removing Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of the party.
The judge, Justice Peter Lifu, in a judgment held that by the constitution of the PDP, having come from the same region as the former National Chairman, Senator Iyorcha Ayu, the acting chairman is entitled to serve out the remaining four-year term of Ayu, who resigned as PDP’s chairman in 2023.
Chairman of the PDP in Yobe State, Umar El-Gash Maina, filed the case. He had dragged the NEC, BoT and eight others to court over alleged plans to remove Damagum as acting chairman of the PDP.
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