PDP appoints Mohammed, as Ag. BoT chairman on may 26, 2015

Abuja – The Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic

Party on Monday approved the nomination of the former

Acting National Chairman of the party, Dr Haliru Bello

Mohammed, as its acting Chairman.

The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, told

State House Correspondents at the end of the BoT meeting

in Abuja that Mohammed, who was the only nominee for the

position, would act in that capacity until when a substantive

BOT chairman is elected.

He said that very soon the party would convene a meeting

where both the National Chairman and the BOT chairman

would be elected.

He also said that the acting Chairman of the party, Chief

Uche Secondus, would continue in that capacity until a

substantive chairman was elected.

Mohammed also told the correspondents that he was very

happy to accept the responsibility for the period to start the

process of repositioning the party towards the 2019 general

elections.

He said that the executive powers of the party still resided

with the National Working Committee (NWC) while the BoT

would act as the conscience of the party and advice the

NWC on how to move the party forward.

“We are determined that we will pull our ideas.

“Most of what remains as the founding fathers of the PDP is

in the BoT.

“Therefore we will make sure that we use their collective

wisdom to also reach out to all our members in all the

states of the federation so that we will bring the party back

to the grassroots.

“We are sending this party back to the people and with what

we have seen in the last 16 years our relationship with the

people of Nigeria we are confident that the PDP will still

remain the largest party in Africa and certainly the party of

choice in Nigeria.

The Acting National Chairman, Secondus, in his contribution

said the acting officials would collaborate with the party to

take the party back to the grassroots.

“By so doing we are going to reinvent and reposition

ourselves for the new position of PDP to provide vibrant,

robust and constructive opposition.

The National Secretary of the BoT, Sen. Walid Jubrin, said

the acting officials would be in office for about three months

as the appointments were a temporary measure to

reposition the party.

Jubrin said that President Goodluck Jonathan had declined

to serve as the Acting chairman of the BOT which informed

the nomination of Mohammed to fill the vacuum created by

the resignation of the former chairman, Chief Tony Aneni.

He said the BOT and the NWC would sit down to take a

decision on when to fix the convention of the party where

substantive officers to occupy the vacant positions would be

elected.