PDP BoT backs N’East to produce party chairman:

 
 Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party have appealed to the aggrieved national officers of the party to sheathe their swords and work with one another to move the party forward.
Also, the party’s Board of Trustees has lent its support to the clamour by the North-East caucus to allow the zone to complete the tenure of Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu as the national chairman of the party.
At a meeting the members of the National Working Committee of the party held with the aggrieved national officers at Legacy House, Abuja on Tuesday, the party’s leaders said that the division among them would not profit the party.They, therefore, begged the aggrieved officers to forget their grievances and join in the move to revive the party.
Four of the national officers — Deputy National Youth Leader, Dennis Alonge-Niyi; Deputy National Legal Adviser, Bashir Maidugu; Deputy National Organising Secretary, Okey Nnadozie; and Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, had in a joint statement last week, asked some of the officers of the party to quit their positions including Secundus Uche. Tuesday’s meeting was the first time the NWC members would call the national officers to such a meeting, where the issues affecting the former ruling party were discussed.
Our correspondent gathered that the meeting was not held at the party’s national secretariat in order not to attract the attention of the media.
The meeting, which was chaired by Secondus, had in attendance all the members of the NWC except the National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo.

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