PDP Leaders Meet Over Mu’azu

Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu

Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu: national chairman of PDP

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are meeting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, today to decide the fate of its National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, and resolve the crisis rocking the party.

The party has been enmeshed in crisis since its poor performance in the country’s general elections that resulted in the defeat of the incumbent president and the party’s presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan.

The party’s leaders and supporters have been trading blames over who and what caused the loss, with some calling for the sack of Mu’azu and members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.

Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu: national chairman of PDP
Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu: national chairman of PDP

Sources said top on the agenda for today’s meeting, which is holding in the absence of Mu’azu, who is abroad for medical treatment,  is whether Mu’azu should be shown the way out of the party.

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The meeting was summoned by the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) Chief Tony Anenih. Former Deputy National Chairman of the party in the Southwest, Chief Bode George, is also expected at the meeting.

Mu’azu and the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, have been locked in a bitter verbal war after the party was defeated in the 28 March presidential and National Assembly elections and the 11 April governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls.

Fayose is at the forefront of those calling for Mu’azu’s resignation. But Mua’azu appears to be soft-pedalling and calling for a truce in order to create a conducive atmosphere for the rebuilding of the party.

The defeat of PDP triggered massive defection of some of the party’s leaders and their supporters in many states to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

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