Former president Olusegun Obasanjo and Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held a meeting on Thursday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Secondus, in the company of his entourage, arrived at Obasanjo’s Penthouse residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, on Thursday afternoon and went immediately into a closed-door meeting.
Obasanjo, who served as Nigeria’s democratically elected president from 1999 to 2007
The PDP Chairman’s visit, it was learnt, may not be unconnected with the internal wranglings within the ranks of the main opposition party.
The PDP, the country’s main opposition party, had recently experienced an internal crisis following questions over the national leadership of Secondus and his National Working Committee (NWC) members.
This led to the resignation of some members of the NWC and increased calls for Secondus to resign his position as National Chairman.
But after an emergency meeting of the PDP’s Board of Trustees and other stakeholders last Tuesday, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State and Chairman of the PDP’s Governor Forum, announced that Secondus will remain chairman of the party till October 2021 instead of December 2021.
This, as Governor Tambuwal explained, is because the party’s national convention scheduled for December has been brought forward to October.
