Four key issues to discuss as PDP BoT holds emergency meeting today

An emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the largest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been scheduled today, Thursday, August 4 to ease the crisis rocking the party.

According to Daily Trust, Chairman of the BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin disclosed the underlisted as the key issues that will be discussed at the meeting.

They include:

- Review of issues generally affecting the party and mapping out strategies to restore it to the path of progress.

- Gale of defection rocking the party.

- The resignation of seven deputy secretaries.

- Plot to remove Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman.

Senator Jibrin said the BoT will take decisions in the interest of the party and Nigerians, giving assurance that the opposition party will overcome all its problems "by this week", The Punch also reported.

Regarding the plot to sack Secondus, the BoT chairman said: “It is very normal for people to call on leaders to resign if they see something wrong about the person’s leadership. We are going to discuss the matter and we will act accordingly”.