PDP leaders meet today over crisis

The Presidency has invited some key members of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, National Working Committee and Elders Caucus to a meeting aimed at resolving the raging crisis in the party. A B0T member and a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Olabode George, who made this known on yesterday, said the meeting would hold in Abuja, today. It was gathered that two leaders were invited from each of the six geo-political zones to attend the meeting.

A top PDP chief alleged that invitations were sent only to the BoT board members backing the calls for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu.

The meeting would review the party’s defeat at the general elections and deliberate on how to reposition it ahead of future elections. Meanwhile, Mu’azu has appealed to aggrieved members of the party to sheathe their swords and work towards the party’s revival. He urged party stakeholders to put behind them the disappointment of defeat, rest all misunderstandings and put the survival and stability of the party ahead of all other considerations.

Mu’azu accused the media of contributing “ immensely to the misunderstanding we are facing in our fold.” Mu’azu also extended an olive branch to his most ardent critic and Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, whom he praised for strengthening the PDP with his victory in the once All Progressives Congress-led state.

Mu’azu also used the opportunity to dispel insinuations that he fled the country. He explained that he left the country to seek medical attention on the advice of his doctors.