PDP stakeholders' meeting
Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), attended a meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders on Sunday night in Abuja.
The meeting held at the Bauchi governor’s lodge in Asokoro, the nation’s capital.
Governors elected on the platform of the PDP, and former governors who are members, attended the meeting.
The serving governors present at the meeting included Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Agbu Kefas (Taraba), Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), Dauda Lawal (Zamfara), Ademola Adeleke (Osun), Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom), Peter Mbah (Enugu), Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau), Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Lawrence Ewuhrudjakpo (deputy governor, Bayelsa).
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Former governors included Sam Egwu (Ebonyi), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Orton (Benue), Adamu Muazu (Bauchi), Achike Udenwa (Imo), Jonah Hang (Plateau), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Aminu Tambuwal, (Sokoto), Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano), and Bukola Saraki (Kwara).
Umar Damagum, acting chairman of the PDP, was also in attendance.
Party chieftains deliberated on internal cohesion and preparations for the 2027 elections.
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They also set up a seven-man committee chaired by Saraki to prepare for a “rancour-free” national executive council (NEC) meeting scheduled for May 27, as well as the forthcoming national convention.
Lawal, Muftwang, Mba, Dickson, Ibrahim Dankwambo, former governor of Gombe, and Ikpeazu are members of the committee.
In a post on X, Saraki described the meeting as a “fruitful deliberation”.
“I just left a meeting of the PDP Governors Forum, attended by its serving and former governors, at the Bauchi Governor’s Lodge. We had a fruitful deliberation on the party’s present challenges and its future,” he wrote.
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The opposition party is grappling with a prolonged internal crisis which has lingered since 2022.
In recent weeks, the party has lost many members, including Sheriff Oborevwori, the governor of Delta, and national and state assembly members, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
