PDP To Bar Chairman From Controlling Party Funds

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has begun moves to whittle down the power of its chairman.

PUNCH gathered that the proposal to strip the national chairman of some of his enormous powers was contained in a memo to the National Executive Committee of the party by the Chairman of its National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

The memo was given to all members of NEC on Tuesday at its 74th meeting, which was held at the party’s national headquarters.

The members were asked to give the documents to officers and influential members of the party in their states in order to have their inputs before passing them into law.

Makarfi, in the memo, titled ‘Draft proposals for constitutional amendments’, said the memo was as a result of the adoption of the report of the PDP Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee.

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He said because of this, “it has become imperative that the PDP Constitution (2012 as amended) be amended to reflect some of the recommendations.”

The proposed amendments are expected to be passed at the party’s non-elective national convention slated for August 12 in Abuja.

In one of the proposals, titled ‘Removal of the power of the national chairman to summon (convene) the national convention’, the party wants the NEC to be the sole determinant of national convention without it being “summoned” by the national chairman.

The proposed amendments read in part, “Modifying Section (1)(a) and inserting a new Section(1)(b) to take away the power of the national chairman to ‘summon “ the National Convention, which appears in conflict with the power of NEC to ‘convene’ the National Convention in Section (31(2)(a).

It said this was in line with “August 2016 Port Harcourt proposed amendment”.

The former National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, had invoked the power conferred on him in Section 35(1) of the party constitution to call off the then May, 2016 convention of the party in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

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The section reads, “There shall be a national chairman who shall be the chief executive of the party, and his functions shall be to (a) summon and preside over the meetings of the national convention, the National Executive Committee, the National Caucus and the National Working Committee of the party.”

If the proposed amendments scale through, the next chairman will also not be a signatory to the party’s bank accounts anymore.

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Source: Nigerian monitor
PDP To Bar Chairman From Controlling Party Funds

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