The embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff appeared to have received favour from the disgruntled members of the party.
This is because the party has retained its chairmanship position in the Northeast geopolitical zone for the next four years.
With this arrangement, the incumbent National Chairman, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, will be testing his popularity at the party’s national convention billed to hold in Port Harcourt on May 21.
The decision was the outcome of the party’s zoning committee headed by Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel and was adopted at yesterday’s party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.
Other party offices were zoned to the various geopolitical zones as follows: Deputy chairman (Southsouth); National Secretary (Southwest); National Legal Adviser (Northwest); National Treasurer (Southsouth); and National Financial Secretary (Northcentral).
Others are: National Woman Leader (Northwest); National Auditor (Southwest); National Publicity Secretary (Southwest); National Organising Secretary (Southeast); and National Youth Leader (Southeast) among others.
The party will be holding another NEC meeting on May 11, to ratify amendments to its constitution.
Attendance was the lowest in the history of the party’s NEC meeting, with just about a quarter of the members in attendance.
