Strong indications have emerged that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will at its May 21 national convention slated to hold in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, move and approve a two-year tenure for the incumbent National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.
According to Vanguard, besides the National Chairman, other members of the National Working Committee, NWC, some of who came on board in 2012 with former National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, would be replaced.
It would be recalled that aside from the Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who took over from Sam Sam Jaja, the National Secretary, Adewale Oladipo, who took over after Prince Olugunsoye Oyinlola was removed and the National Auditor, Adewale Adeyanju who replaced Bode Mustapha as the National Auditor, others came with Tukur.
According to an informed source who spoke to Vanguard, it became imperative to give a two-year term to the former Borno State governor because the governors would want him to continue because he has been running the party with his money as national chairman and that getting a replacement for him at this period of the life of the party will be difficult.
The source said the governors wanted their own to continue, since Sheriff belonged to that category as former governor of Borno State.
The report also states that at the National Convention, PDP members would approve the zoning of position of national chairman to the South-West at the expiration of Sheriff’s two years in office. It was also gathered that PDP will ratify the position of NWC, and National Executive Committee, NEC, which zoned the 2019 presidential ticket to the North, even as the source said that the moves by the party was to carry everyone and every zone along.
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