The police reopened the secretariat last week, and now the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is ready to hold its first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at its national headquarters, Wadata Plaza.
In November of last year, the party’s secretariat was closed after a violent fight between groups loyal to Tanimu Turaki and Abdulrahman Mohammed, both of whom claimed to be the party’s leader.
In March, the Court of Appeal threw out the Ibadan convention that led to the Turaki-led leadership, which changed the course of the crisis.
The Mohammed-led group, which is said to have the support of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, used the ruling to set up a separate convention in Abuja.
People who support the Mohammed-led faction are likely to go to the NEC meeting.
Wike, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and former Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu are some of the most important people who will be at the meeting.
In the meantime, Wike’s supporters have promised to run a candidate for president in the 2027 election.
Wike has said publicly that he supports President Bola Tinubu’s re-election, according to reports.
He had just said in an interview on TV that the party doesn’t have enough money to run a presidential campaign.
But Jungudo Haruna Mohammed, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, told Daily Trust in an interview that the party would not run a presidential candidate.
He said that the National Executive Committee meeting on Monday will talk about and settle problems with zoning and the price of the forms.
