The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention would be held on October 30 and 31, the party announced on Friday.
Sokoto State Governor and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, disclosed this after a closed-door meeting of the PDP national caucus at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.
“We have just rising from the 40th meeting of the national caucus of our great party the PDP where we have resolved to submit to the NEC of our party tomorrow a recommendation from the national working committee (NWC) for the national convention of our party to be held between Friday 30th of October to Saturday, 31st of October,” he said.
“Venue will be determined tomorrow by the National Executive Committee (NEC),” he said.
The governor said the caucus has appointed former Senate President David Mark to lead the reconciliation of aggrieved members who have initiated court cases against the party.
“Also, this distinguish body has empaneled eight distinguish leaders of our party under the able leadership of former president of the senate, senator David Mark to interface with our leaders who are involved in this issue, so that all court matters can will be withdrawn for normalcy to return to the party,” he said.
On the counter court judgment temporarily restoring Uche Secondus as the national chairman of the party, Tambuwal said the party is yet to serve the court order.