The National
Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has proposed that its Board
of Trustees, BOT, should assume the leadership of the party anytime the
party
has leadership crisis.
This is one
of the proposals for constitutional amendment submitted to members of the party
by the chairman of the caretaker committee, Ahmed Makarfi.
It is aimed
at checkmating influential new members from taking over the leadership of the
PDP.
The party
only last month resolved a 14-month leadership tussle when the Supreme Court
sacked Modu Ali-Sheriff as national chairman and declared Mr. Markarfi as the
authentic leader of the party.
Under the
“qualification for membership,” the committee also proposed that a member must
spend a minimum of four consecutive years to the party before a member can
belong to the BOT should be removed.
“In the
event of a leadership crisis at the national level, the BOT may assume
responsibility for the running of the affairs of the party for a period not
exceeding six months within which an elected leadership shall be put in place,”
the caretaker committee stated in the proposal.
Mr. Makarfi,
who is a former governor of Kaduna State, said the party’s resurgence following
the resolution of its leadership crisis, has stabilised the nation’s polity.
He also said
the party’s non-elective convention set for August 12 would set out programmes
of the party.
Mr. Makarfi,
who was addressing the PDP Women’s Forum who paid him a visit at the party’s
national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, said the party would reconcile with
aggrieved members and attract new members.
“We know
there is hunger, we know that there are difficulties, all kinds of problems in
the country. But as soon as this judgment came, it seemed to have brought down
tempers.
“Why tempers
have gone down is because the people have seen the alternative they have been
waiting for. We will work together as always to make sure we don’t let the
people down.
“We have a
lot of work ahead of us to reconcile (aggrieved members). When I talk of
reconciliation, we are talking of reconciliation in general terms, not over
recent events.
“We need to
go back to 2015 and even before then and reconcile with as many of our party
men and women that either have left the party or have developed cold feet.
“So, it’s a
question of balancing of interests without forgetting the input, the
contributions of men and women across this country to take this party to where
we are at the moment in spite of all the difficulties.”
Mr. Makarfi
explained that the process of rebuilding the party required accommodation,
saying excluding any interest would not help the party in achieving its goals.
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