Abuja — The National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set to take the final steps to completely strip its Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman and members of the executive powers, surreptitiously handed it in the party's "hood and dagger" constitutional amendment of 2006.
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Daily Independent learnt on Tuesday that constitutional amendments proposed for the special convention of the party scheduled for this second quarter and the design of a programme for the implementation of the Alex Ekwueme National Reconciliation Committee report, dominate the agenda of the party's national executive meeting scheduled for Abuja Thursday.
It was also found that the working paper for tomorrow's meeting is the memorandum by the party's National Working Committee on the Alex Ekwueme report.
The memorandum, which is heavily favoured by current PDP Chairman Vincent Ogbulafor, recommends at paragraph 9 (III) that "the BOT should revert to its advisory role" in the 2001 constitution as amended.
It also recommends that "there should be no provision limiting the chairmanship of the board to particular and specific qualifications as this is undemocratic." Former president Olusegun Obasanjo currently chairs the board.
Further, the NEC is expected to approve a programme to implement the recommendations to reconcile estranged members of the party. It is expected that the NEC will proffer solutions to fresh crises that erupted in some states in the attempt to reintegrate some estranged members in the process of reconciliation.
A summit of such members still standing on the fringes, to be organized by the PDP, may also be considered tomorrow. The purpose of the summit is to reassure such people that they are valued and that the party is being repositioned to enable them achieve their individual political dreams.
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Meanwhilem, another summit of founding fathers of the party and other stakeholders to reflect upon and deliberate on how to revert to the original values and principles upon which the party was formed may also be announced after tomorrow's meeting.
This recommendation, contained in the memorandum by the National Working Committee, which heavily influenced the agenda for the meeting, is said to be favoured by the NEC. They believe that it will help to rebuild party spirit as recommended by the Ekwueme committee.
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