PDP Orders Elders C’ttee To Change Into Standing C’ttee

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has ordered the People Democratic Party (PDP) Elders Committee led by Senator Ike Nwachukwu to transform into a standing committee to enable it perform its reconciliatory role properly.
Yar’Adua gave the directive at the Presidential Villa in Abuja when the committee paid him a courtesy visit.
Our correspondent reports that a member of the committee said the President directed the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to constitute the Nwachukwu’s committee into a standing committee to enable it do a thorough job.
According to the member of the committee, the President after listening to the enormity of work before the committee and series of feuds between the serving governors and their predecessors, the president in response to the address by Senator Nwachukwu, recommended that the Elders Committee be transformed into a standing committee.
The Tide gathered that the PDP Constitution, stipulates that the NWC can constitute a committee into a standing committee pending the completion of its work.
Besides, another source told our correspondent that, to avoid any conflict of interest, the PDP NWC had already asked the Elders Committee not to dissolve any state working committee.
Rather, it mandated the Nwachukwu-led committee to restrict itself to its duty of reconciling former governors and the incumbent governors.
The Tide learnt that the order from the Presidency was against the backdrop of a news story that the state executives in some states in the zone where there are factions would be dissolved.