The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Abba Moro (PDP/Benue South), says that the People’s Democracy Party (PDP) Senate caucus was yet to take a position on the party’s national chairmanship seat.
Moro made the disclosure on Monday in Makurdi while interacting with newsmen shortly after the PDP Benue chapter’s expanded caucus meeting.
The Senate minority leader said that the caucus would meet at the appropriate time to make its decision.
Moro dispel the rumours making the rounds that PDP would hold a mini convention on November 28th.
According to him, there would be the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on the said date and not a mini convention.
“What PDP is holding is a NEC meeting. Let nobody deceive you that there is going to be a mini convention on November 28.
“Of course the issue of the national chairman of our party is on the front burner of national discourse, so it will be discussed during the meeting.” he said
Chief Samuel Ortom, immediate past governor of Benue, said there was no vacant position for the office of the PDP national chairman.
Ortom stated that a court of competent jurisdiction has already ruled that there was no vacant position for the said office.
“The issue is that there is no vacancy for the national chairman position of PDP for now.
‘People are free to campaign if they are interested and want to be there, but there is a subsisting court judgement, not a court order, that there is no vacant position.
“So I cannot be commenting on something that a legitimate high court in Nigeria has ruled on.
“When that time comes, the stakeholders are here, and we will discuss. If the party decides that it should come to us, we will discuss and decide who should be there,” he said.
