Battle for soul of PDP: Atiku attends BOT meeting

As crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepens day by day, Nigeria’s former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abuja has shown up for Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting of the party in Abuja.

He arrived at exactly 2.00pm at Wadata House in Wuse Zone 5, headquarters of PDP.

Tuesday’s BOT meeting was necessitated by the removal of PDP’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus by a Rivers State High Court on Monday.

Some of BOT members who made themselves available for the meeting include the Board chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin; Secretary, Adolphus Wabara; former governor of Kaduna and Niger states, Ahmed Makarfi and Babangida Aliyu; former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Tanimu Turaki; ex- Senate President and one-time Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.

Others include erstwhile Minister of Defence, Bello Haliru, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, among others.

It was recalled that after Secondus was shoved aside, two of his deputies lay claim to acting National Chairman, thereby set more confusion.