PDP Crisis: Wike Removed as Convention planning Chairman

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 Today there is a new dimension to People Democratic Party (PDP) crisis as the Board of Trustees (BoT) announces the remover of River State Governor Nyesom Wike as chairman of the convention planning committee.

The BoT instruct Caretaker Committee led by Ahmed Makarfi to set up of a new planning committee for the party's national convention to be approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, and convention was schedule for next year in Abuja instead of Port Harcourt, where it was aborted twice.

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The directives by the BoT were part of the conditions given by the faction led by estranged National Chairman Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff for peace and reconciliation with the Makarfi committee before the last botched convention.

The BoT's letter reads: "The next convention should be held in Abuja.
"To ensure a credible, transparent, free and fair convention, a new Convention Planning Committee should be constituted by the National Caretaker Committee and approved by NEC".
The communique further stated that the BoT should facilitate fund raising for the running of the party and directed to reconciliation committee headed by a former Information Minister, Prof. Jerry Gana to continue with its reconciliation efforts.

Ali Modu Sheriff                                                   Markafi

The meeting ended with the BoT passing a vote of confidence on the Makarfi led caretaker committee.
It charged the committee to to convene a meeting of the NEC, with the view to approving proposals designed to steer the party away from crisis.