Barring any last minute changes, Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set to cancel its national convention scheduled to hold this weekend in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State and set up a Caretaker Committee to resolve grievances and unite the party, SIGNAL can report.
A top party official who spoke to SIGNAL from Port-Harcourt on Saturday disclosed the details.
According to the source who did not want to be named, “As I am speaking to you now, top level meetings are going on and top on the agenda of the meetings is the cancellation of the convention to pave way for a Caretaker Committee that will unite the party.”
The source said some party bigwigs were concerned about sacrificing the future of the party on the altar of the ambition of Ali-Modu Sheriff and his supporters.
Efforts to reach Chief Olisa Metuh, the party’s National Publicity Secretary for comments proved abortive at the time of filing this report.
It will be recalled that the Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Committee, Nyesom Wike, had said the party’s national convention would go on in Port Harcourt as scheduled despite court orders restraining the party from holding elections into some offices.
More details later.
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