The Peoples Democratic Party has turned to Dr. Haliru Mohammed for the acting chairmanship of party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) following rejection of the offer to serve in that position by President Goodluck Jonathan.
PDP on Monday approved the nomination of the former Acting National Chairman of the party, Dr Haliru Bello Mohammed, as its acting Chairman.
The National Secretary of the BoT, Sen. Walid Jubrin, said the acting officials would be in office for about three months as the appointments were a temporary measure to reposition the party.
Jubrin said that President Goodluck Jonathan had declined to serve as the Acting chairman of the BOT.
PDP has been thrown into crisis of confidence since the party which has been in power since the inception of the current republic was ousted by the opposition riding on the wings of security challenges and dwindling revenues as result of crash in international crude oil prices.
The chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu and the BoT chairman Tony Anenih were both persuaded to quit their posts which would have run till 2016 to create room for reconciliation and rebirth of the party.
Jinrin said the BOT and the NWC would sit down to take a decision on when to fix the convention of the party where substantive officers to occupy the vacant positions would be elected.
Mohammed also told the correspondents that he was very happy to accept the responsibility for the period to start the process of repositioning the party towards the 2019 general elections. He said that the executive powers of the party still resided with the National Working Committee (NWC) while the BoT would act as the conscience of the party and advice the NWC on how to move the party forward.
He said, “We are determined that we will pull our ideas. Most of what remains as the founding fathers of the PDP is in the BoT. Therefore we will make sure that we use their collective wisdom to also reach out to all our members in all the states of the federation so that we will bring the party back to the grassroots.
“We are sending this party back to the people and with what we have seen in the last 16 years our relationship with the people of Nigeria we are confident that the PDP will still remain the largest party in Africa and certainly the party of choice in Nigeria. The Acting National Chairman, Secondus, in his contribution said the acting officials would collaborate with the party to take the party back to the grassroots.
“By so doing we are going to reinvent and reposition ourselves for the new position of PDP to provide vibrant, robust and constructive opposition.
