PDP NWC Puts-Off Stakeholders Conference

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it has put on hold all activities pertaining to the yet to be inaugurated committee on the proposed PDP National Conference. In a statement issued on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the party said the move is "to create room for further consultations and exhaustive consideration by critical stakeholders, of the report of the PDP Post Election Assessment Committee, headed by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, which is due for submission this month". THISDAY had exclusively reported that as part of measures to reposition the PDP and to refocus its agenda away from the shortcomings of the past, the post election committee headed by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwerenmadu is expected to submit its report on September 23. The major task of the committee is to attend to the more than 1000 memoranda from party members and to recommend possible reforms as well as other strategies intended to help revamp the fading popularity of the PDP.