The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s 92nd National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting was presided over by Elder Yemi Akinwonmi on Saturday.
Akinwonmi is the acting National Chairman of the party after a court order restrained Uche Secondus from the role.
Secondus has since obtained another court order reinstating him as the National Chairman.
But Secondus had, in a letter, asked Akinwonmi to preside over Saturday’s meeting in his absence.
“I hereby request you to preside over the National Executive Committee meeting of the Party, taking place today, 28th August, 2021@ 12 noon, in my absence,” the letter read.
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At Saturday’s meeting, Akinwonmi said consultations within the party were yielding desired results.
He condemned the country’s deteriorating security situation and high cost of living owing to the weakness of the naira against other currencies.
Meantime, the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jubril, said the problems in the party were not insurmountable.
He noted that challenges and disputes were a fact of life in any party, but how they were resolved mattered the most.
He advised the party not to fail Nigerians, as it remained the last hope of citizens.
“There is no way the PDP can win elections if it is divided,” he added.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, also expressed confidence in the party’s internal mechanism to resolve its crisis.
He also lashed out at the incumbent government, insisting that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government had taken the country backward since they came into power in 2015.
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