Reconciliation Committee to brief Damagum-led NWC today Over PDP Crisis The national reconciliation committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is scheduled to meet the Umar Damagum-led national working committee (NWC) on Tuesday.
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The meeting will hold at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.
The reconciliation committee met on Monday to finalise its inquire into the internal wrangling in the opposition party.
Speaking after the meeting, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, chairman of the committee and former governor of Osun state, revealed the NWC will be apprised about the panel’s findings and recommendations.
The Round Table understands that the committee’s recommendations would be presented to the national executive council (NEC) for ratification.
The NEC is expected to meet on Thursday.
Oyinlola rebuffed questions on members submitted for suspension.
“As far as we are concerned, I will take that one as a rumour because we are meeting with the national working committee tomorrow. So, after tomorrow, you can ask me,” he said.
“Regarding our assignment as members of the national reconciliation committee, we are scheduled to meet the members of the National Assembly so that we can share in their experiences as to what is causing the dwindling fortunes of our party politically.
“We have had useful discussions with them. I guess there are suggestions that will aid our party to unite and remain formidable. That’s what has happened this evening.
“One conspicuous thing calledy for any party to be capable to go into a battle and triumph is that it must be united. That’s what we are going for.”
THE NEC MEETING
The NEC is the highest decision-making organ of the PDP, comprising state governors, serving and former presidents, former vice-presidents, chairman and secretary of the board of trustees (BoT), principal officers of the national assembly, all state chairmen, members of the NWC, former governors, and founding members, among others.
As is the tradition in the PDP, several organs in the party, including the PDP Governors’ Forum, national Assembly caucus, BoT, and national caucus, will broadcast separate meetings ahead of the NEC meeting.
There have been summons for the PDP to call a NEC meeting.
The party’s constitution mandates the NEC to meet quarterly.
The latest time the party declared a NEC meeting was in April.
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Published 10/22/2024