PDP Fixes NEC Meeting, Sat

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has announced plans by the party to hold its much-awaited National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, tomorrow.
He said this while speaking to the media on the outcome of its National Working Committee meeting, held in Abuja, yesterday.
Ologbondiyan said, among other things, that, “Elder Yemi Akinwonmi was unanimously affirmed as acting national chairman.
“We will be holding our caucus and another NWC meeting tomorrow preparatory to holding our National Executive Council meeting at 12 ‘O’clock on Saturday. “
However, the National Working Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party had held separate emergency meetings at the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja, yesteray.
The NWC, which has most of the 19 members in attendance, was presided over by the Deputy National Chairman (South), Yemi Akinwonmi.
Others at the meeting include the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Suleiman Nazif; National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan; and the National Youth Leader, Sunday Ude-Okoye; among others.
The meeting started at about 12.00pm.
The meeting of the BoT, which also held at the party’s National Executive Committee Hall, had in attendance former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, David Mark and Pius Anyim; former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi(rtd); former Niger State Governor, who is also the Chairman of the ex-PDP Governors Forum, Babangida Aliyu, among others.