CONFUSION AMONG PDP BOT MEMBERS OVER PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS
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-By Joseph Omoniyi
Members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP Board of Trustees, have been divided over decision to pick its presidential candidate in next year’s election.
The Board had earlier ordered its members to remain neutral and not to how support whether privately or openly, for any of the aspirants in order to be able to adjudicate in case of grievances after the party’s primaries.
The Chairman of the Board, Senator Walid Jibrin, at a meeting among the members, said, members of the BoT should remain as the conscience of the party. “If you are a member of BoT, you remain as a member of the BoT and the conscience of the party. They should not move about with any aspirant.
“If we are really the conscience of the party, we should not move about with aspirants. That was what happened during the last national convention when we elected the national chairman.
“Some of us went and pitched camp with aspirants, taking them all over the place. This time, we will not allow that to happen,” Jibrin had said.
However, three BoT members were reportedly seen, gracing the inauguration ceremony of one of the aspirants, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday. Vincent Ogbulafor, who was both former National Chairman of the party and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Nwodo and Chief Tom Ikimi, were in attendance as the former Vice-President,inaugurated members of his nomination council ahead of the PDP presidential primary election slated for 5th and 6th of October, in Rivers State.
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