The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has endorsed the caretaker committee set up during the party’s convention.
The convention was held last Saturday in the Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
Also, as a sign of mended fences, the other faction of the party, known as the concerned stakeholders group has accepted the BoT verdict.
The group has accepted to team up with the PDP caretaker committee after it had held a parallel convention in Abuja.
Both the BOT and the factional group, led by Ibrahim Mantu, made this known at the end of their peace meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
They also directed their members to withdraw pending cases from the courts.
The BoT also set up a committee to meet former acting National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff.
Thursday’s meeting followed counter court orders which restrained the factional leaders, Senators Sheriff and Makarfi from assuming the mantle of leadership of the party.
In one case, a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt granted an interim injunction restraining Senator Sheriff and former secretary, Professor Adewale Oladipo from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
But in a counter ruling, a Federal High Court in Lagos declared as invalid, the Makarfi-led caretaker committee constituted to take over the affairs of the PDP.
Below is the official Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nigeria resolution:
The meeting of the members of the PDP Concerned Group led by Sen. Ibrahim Mantu, the PDP National Caretaker Committee, led by H.E. Senator Ahmed Makarfi and the members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) held today at Transcorp Hotel, Abuja, May 26, 2016.
Also in attendance were PDP members at the National Assembly represented by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy President of the Senate and Hon. Leo Ogor, House Minority Leader.
At the end of the meeting and after series of deliberation, the meeting arrived at the following resolutions:-
1. The Senator Ibrahim Mantu led PDP Concerned Group that held a parallel Convention in Abuja on Saturday the 21st of May 2016 recognises the PDP National Convention in Port Harcourt and agreed to work with the Ahmed Makarfi led PDP National Caretaker Committee;
2. 9 Out of the 12 members of the former National Working Committee (NWC) that was dissolved at the Port Harcourt Convention also recognised the Ahmed Makarfi led PDP National Caretaker Committee and agreed to work with them;
3. BOT members and members of PDP at the National Assembly also recognise the Ahmed Makarfi led PDP National Caretaker Committee and all pledged their loyalty to the Committee;
4. BOT also advised all aggrieved members of the PDP that has cases in courts to withdraw such cases and settle the matter internally using the various available party mechanism;
5. Finally, the meeting constituted a Committee to meet with the former National Chairman, H.E. Sen. (Dr.) Ali Modu Sheriff for further deliberation.
All Party members nationwide are to remain calm and continue to support the PDP National Caretaker Committee.
PDP… power to the people!
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