Why We Suspended Our Proposed National conference- PDP

National publicity secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh

According to the national publicity secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who spoke with news men in Abuja, said despite the acceptance of the national conference by the National Working Committee of the party, the party’s leadership called for the suspension to ensure all interests of the party is accommodated and taken into consideration.
“We felt that if we are going to do it, all interests will be accommodated in terms of the leadership of the National Assembly and the Governors’ Forum. We will take nominees from state Houses of Assembly, nominees of youth leaders and the youth forum, because we want the party to go back to the youths. We want the youths to be involved in whatever we are doing,’’ he said.

He further said the party decided to wait for the report on reconciliation of members which he calimed is due for submission next week. He said without considering the report, “it means that we have discarded and foreclosed the issue of the Ekweremadu committee.”
Metuh said that copies of the Ekweremadu committee’s report would be sent to the governors’ forum, the BOT, National Caucus, and to the zones, for their inputs before such conference.
Metuh explained that the NWC had no problem with ‘’committed leaders of our party’’ who had been called into the conference committee stressing that leadership of the party and all its organs were in one accord, saying “NWC, BoT and even the Governors’ Forum are on the same page on this’’.
He cleared the air on the advert on the proposed conference which was aired on some media houses.

“Immediately the advertisement was aired, the NWC was bombarded with lots of complaints saying that why should we spread the membership of the committee to include some of those who have left the party. They also complained about why we should exclude a lot of people whom they felt should have been involved and not those who walked out on this party,’’ he said.

A  group  within the PDP, known as PDP National Reform Conference, headed by a former minister of information, Prof. Jerry Gana is in charge of the national conference.