January date set for election of PDP BOT chair

The Chairman of the PDP’s Board of Trustees (BOT) would be elected on 8 January next year. This is official.

Senator Walid Jibrin, the Secretary of the BOT, made this known to State House correspondents after a meeting of the BOT members at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday night.

He said that contrary to reports that the election would hold yesterday; the meeting only discussed the modalities that would be adopted for the election of the chairman and secretary of the board.

Jibrin said that the party was not in a hurry to elect a new BOT chairman.

“The board of trustees held emergency meeting to discuss the chairmanship of the board.We came to discuss the modalities that will lead to electing the new chairman. The election will be a pride to Nigerians.

“We are not in a hurry to elect a new chairman; we want a chairman that is sound, accepted, credible and with proven integrity; a chairman who has a clear vision for the party’s mission.

“However, anyone interested should submit his intent to the secretary of the party.’’

Jibrin, nonetheless, stressed that contenders for the position must come from members of the BOT, adding that the aspirants had only one week to submit their intent.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo stepped down from the chairmanship of the BOT about eight months ago.

Some dignitaries at the BOT meeting are PDP Chairman Bamanga Tukur, Senate President David Mark and former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme. Others include PDP National Secretary Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,.

The meeting was also attended by a former PDP chairman, Dr Haliru Bello, former Gov. Adamu Abdullahi of Nasarawa State, Sen. Jim Nwobodo, Alhaji Ghali Na’Abba, Chief Barnabas Gemade and Chief Olabode George.

Mrs Mariam Ahmadu-Ali, Prince Vincent Ogboulafor, Chief Sunny Odogwu, Dr Kema Chikwe, Senator. Ibrahim Mantu, Senator Bode Olajumoke, Alhaji Maina Waziri, Chief Don Etiebet, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and Senator Danjuma Goje also attended the meeting.