The meeting is also a precursor to another enlarged crucial National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold tomorrow.
The president is currently receiving treatment for a heart-related ailment in Saudi Arabia and there are conflicting reports of his date of return as officials have expressed the hope that the president may return this week. The Nigerian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, reportedly told the Voice of America (VOA) that the media report lacks credibility.
The envoy added that the president has just been removed from the intensive care unit of the Saudi Hospital and as a result, nobody can tell when the president will arrive the country.
He maintained that the president can only come back when he is certified fit by his doctors.
A similar report in the Daily Nation newspaper of Kenya also indicated that the Saudi doctor of the president is flying to either the US or Germany and that the president may remain bed-ridden in the next three months.
It was gathered that the worries of the PDP is further compounded by calls from different quarters that the president should resign his position.
Of particular concern to the party is that some of the party’s members are also rooting for the resignation of the president.
In this league is the former speaker of House of Representatives and a kinsman of the president, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari, who was recently quoted as asking the president to step down.
The opinion of the speaker is said to be attracting some sanctions from the PDP in the North West Zone. The National Vice Chairman of PDP in the zone, Dr. Danladi Sankara, who spoke to journalists in Kano yesterday, said the party will sanction the ex-speaker if their investigation found him guilty as the utterances are completely anti-party.
Officials of the PDP have, however, denied any nexus between the two crucial meetings and the president’s ill-health.
According to the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, who spoke to P.M.NEWS on phone this morning, the NWC meeting is as usual, a preparatory meeting for the regular call embracing a NEC meeting.
“The NEC meeting is held quarterly and there is nothing emergency about it. I can also tell you that there is nothing about the president’s health to warrant it being added to the agenda of the two meetings, nor discussing it at all,” the PDP deputy national chairman said, adding that the party had earlier at a press briefing clearly articulated its position on the issue of the president’s health.
It will be recalled that the PDP officially threw its weight behind the ailing president maintaining that “Yar’Adua is strong and fit enough to continue to pilot the affairs of the country.”
On the agenda of the meeting, Haliru hinted that like it did last year, the party will take stock of its activities in the year as well as review the thorny issue of the choice of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s candidate in the coming governorship election in Anambra State.
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