The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the notion of a caretaker committee association, insisting that the occasion’s nationwide conference should go on to elect new officers for the occasion.
The chairman of the BoT, Senator Adolphus Wabara, mentioned this in an announcement
dissociating and distancing the board from the report of its Reconciliation Committee, which beneficial a nationwide caretaker committee within the occasion the conference couldn’t maintain, being circulated in some part of the media.
He mentioned the contents of the mentioned report don’t not characterize the official place of the Board.
He mentioned it has not been thought of or adopted by the BoT, “it can’t in any kind or guise by any means be thought to be the place of the BoT.”
He added the “BoT is unwavering in its endorsement of the conduct of the elective Nationwide Conference as scheduled on Saturday, fifteenth to Sunday sixteenth November, 2025 in Ibadan, Oyo State capital for the aim of electing new set of leaders to pilot the affairs of the Party within the subsequent 4 years. This place is guided by the Judgment of the Supreme Court docket which reaffirmed the supremacy of a political occasion within the conduct of its inside affairs.
“In that regard, the BoT rejects any suggestion for a Caretaker Committee for the Party. Such concept can’t be contemplated because the Board and, after all the PDP, have irreversibly determined for an elective Nationwide Conference which is inside the scope of the interior affairs of the occasion to which the courts don’t have any jurisdiction.”
The BoT chairman urged occasion members to stay dedicated and targeted on the success of the Elective Nationwide Conference happening in Ibadan, Oyo State, between this Saturday and Sunday.
Recall {that a} six-man reconciliation committee of BoT beneficial an all-inclusive nationwide caretaker committee to supervise the occasion’s affairs following thr authorized logjam over the occasion’s conference.
The committee additionally cautioned that going forward with the conference presently should be topic to beneficial authorized standing and disposition of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC).
It, nevertheless, mentioned that INEC wasn’t prone to monitor the conference contemplating the a number of court docket orders and judgements on the matter.
This was contained in a report by the six-member committee sighted by LEADERSHIP which was submitted to the BoT management on Thursday.
The report was additionally introduced to the PDP governors and different stakeholders at a later assembly on Thursday.
Members of the committee have been Amb. Hassan Adamu, CON (North East) – Chairman; Prince Olagunsonye Oyinlola (South West); Dr. Mike Oghiadomhe, CFR (South South} – Secretary; Sen. Zaynab Kure, CON (North Central); Dr. Lubna Gusau (North West); and Chief Ugochukwu Okeke (South East).
The BoT arrange the committee within the wake of suspensions and court docket instances that preceded the nationwide conference scheduled to carry at this time.
The warring camps, Wike group and PDP governors, have been locked in a authorized tussle over the conference, with two Abuja courts ruling for the gathering to be halted, whereas an Ibadan court docket gave the occasion a inexperienced mild to proceed.
Nevertheless, the BoT reconciliation group mentioned after assembly with all involved events within the dispute, it came upon that friction, mistrust and lack of sincerity had festered for too lengthy amongst the important thing gamers, particularly governors and the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) members.
The committee mentioned it met with PDP governors, FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, the members of the NWC, former Senate president, Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
