The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP deferred the election of its chairman of the Board of Trustees in order to ensure that whoever emerged as the Chairman would be acceptable to the generality of its members.
This was made known by Nigeria's Ambassador to Canada and PDP's BOT member, Ojo Madueke.

Madueke, while addressing state house correspondents at the end of the Tuesday night meeting, explained that the board has set up a committee which is to be chaired by Professor Jerry Gana to carry out the alignment and report back to the board within three weeks.

Maduekwe said the mandate of the committee was to properly align membership of the board in such a way that the election of the next BoT chairman would be a model of internal democracy.

He however said apart from the procedure for the election, the meeting did not come close to discussing the aspirants or endorsing any of them.

“The meeting did not come close to election, nomination or endorsement of any aspirant. There was no deadlock and no gridlock,” he said.

The Chairman of the committee, Gana, admitted that the decision to set up the committee arose because some members were already challenging the legality of some people to vote.

He also faulted reports that some PDP governors were planning to unseat the party’s chairman, Bamanga Tukur, saying the governors were law abiding party members.

On the Tukur issue, Madueke denied reports of any rift or cracks in the PDP.

He however said as a big party, minor disagreements based on interests could not be overruled.

According to him, efforts were being made to resolve issues, including that of Adamawa State, members of the National Working Committee had been directed to stop media war.

Other members of the committee according to Madueke are: Dr. Shettima Mustapha, Governor Ibrahim Shema, Chief Olabode George, Hope Uzodinma, and Mrs. Stella Omu.

News at earlier surfaced on the internet Tuesday night of the purported election of a National Chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali as the BOT Chairman. With popular blogger Linda Ikeji also running it on her blog before eventually deleting the news item.

Among those present at the meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan were Vice President Namadi Sambo; President of the Senate, David Mark; and Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal.



Others present were former Vice President Alex Ekwueme; Chairman of the party, Bamanga Tukur; Secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; Women Leader, Kema Chikwe; former chairmen of the party -Bello Haliru Mohammed; Ahmadu Ali; Barnabas Gemade, and Vincent Ogbulafor.

The meeting also had in attendance, former Presidents of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara and Ken Nnamani; former Speakers of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba and Patricia Etteh; former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu; Governors Ibrahim Shema (Katsina); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Mrs. Josephine Anenih, Ambassador Hassan Adamu, Don Etiebet, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Danjuma Goje and Shuaibu Oladokun.

Not left out were Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, that of the United Kingdom, Senator Dalhatu Tafida; Chief Richard Akinjide, Chief Olabode George, Chief Jim Nwobodo, Chief Emmanuel Nwanyanwu, Mrs. Josephine Anenih, Don Etiebet, Senator Bode Olajumoke, David Jemibewon, Victor Attah, Shuaib Oyedokun and Ebenezer Babatope.

But conspicuously missing was former President and immediate past BOT Chairman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

It will be recalled that Obasanjo has last April resigned his position as PDP BOT Chairman, stating his desire to devote more time to the international demand on him.

Source: http://tosinoluwalowo..com/2013/01/why-we-didnt-elect-bot-chairman-pdp.html

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