By Kolawole Ojebisi
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted the declarations made by the party’s Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, concerning the reinstatement of Samuel Anyanwu as the opposition party’s National Chairman and the suspension of the planned National Executive Committee (NEC).
In a statement issued on Thursday, the PDP’s BoT chairman, Adolphus Wabara, maintained that PDP’s NEC meeting scheduled for June 30, 2025 remains sacrosanct. remains
According to Wabara, no organ, group or individual has the power or competence to cancel, adjust or postpone the 100th NEC meeting already scheduled by the NEC to hold on Monday, 30th June, 2025.
The former Senate President added that purported reinstatement of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary is equally spurious and offensive to the spirit and letter of the PDP Constitution, the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment and the resolution of NEC.
The statement reads, “The attention of the Board of Trustees has been drawn to an unconstitutional pronouncement by the Acting National Chairman of our great party, Amb. Umar Iliya Damagum, purporting to cancel the 100th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold on Monday, 30th June, 2025 and directing Senator Samuel Anyanwu to resume as National Secretary of the Party
“It is therefore not within the remit or authority of the Acting National Chairman, to override a collective decision of the NEC. Such conduct amounts to an affront to the constitutional authority of NEC and the collective will of our Party.
“The 100th NEC Meeting shall proceed as scheduled on Monday, 30th June, 2025. All members of NEC are duly advised to disregard any contradictory notice or statement regarding the 100th NEC meeting.
“The Deputy National Secretary, Arc. Setonji Koshoedo remains the Acting National Secretary of the PDP pending any contrary decision formally taken and communicated by the appropriate Organ of the Party.
“All party members are advised to be guided by the supremacy of the Constitution of the PDP, and resist any attempt to drag the party into avoidable crisis,” the statement read in part.
The PDP BoT’s statement comes almost 24 hours after eleven key members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) kicked against Damagum’s declarations, vowing to go ahead with the NEC meeting as scheduled.
