Strong indications have emerged that today’s meeting of the National Executive Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be a storm session full of agitations.
This is coming following the move by a section of the membership of the party from the North-east to ensure that the position of the national chairman is returned to them, ThisDay reports.
It was learnt that the move to retake the chairmanship post is said to have met a stiff resistance from majority of the members of the National Working Committee who would prefer the status-quo to be maintained.
It was further gathered on Wednesday, October 14, that intense lobbying was going on between both sides of the divide who were seeking out other members of the NEC to convince them to support their position.
A reliable party source told THISDAY tha some persons from the North-east have brought in a sum of N200 million and have been distributing huge sums of money as bribe to key NEC members.
However, another source said that the NEC is divided between those who wants the Acting national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, and those who want a replacement chosen from among the members from the North-east to complete the tenure of the former chairman, Adamu Mua’zu who resigned shortly after PDP was defeated in the last presidential election.