PDP Crisis Worsens As Baraje-led Faction Appoints National Working Committee Members
The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party has continued to defy all peace moves as the Abubakar Baraje-led faction on Monday announced the appointment of more members into its National Working Committee.
The announcement by the National Secretary of the faction, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, came barely 72 hours after the police laid siege to their secretariat in Abuja.
It also coincided with the boycott of a meeting convened by the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, in Abuja on Monday by 17 state chairmen of the party.
President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to continue his peace talks with all the governors elected on the PDP platform at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday (today).
But Oyinlola, in a statement in Abuja, said the stakeholders of the New PDP across the country had
ratified the election of members of the NWC.
Apart from Baraje, who is the NWC chairman and Dr Sam Sam Jaja, deputy national chairman, Maode Hiliya was named the deputy national secretary; Timi Frank, national youth leader; and Mrs. Binta Koje, national woman leader.
Others are Mallam Nasir Issa, national organising secretary ; Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, national publicity secretary; Aliyu Wadada, national financial secretary; and Mallam Tanko Gomna, national treasurer.
Oyinlola however did not say when and where the NWC members were elected.
