As the crisis bedeviling the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seems not to be ending, different caucuses with varying interests are springing up in the party, two of which met in Abuja during the week.
First to meet on Wednesday was the party’s Former Senators’ Forum, which held its meeting at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja.
Among the former senators who featured at the meeting were three former Presidents of the Senate produced by the party: Pius Anyim, David Mark and Bukola Saraki.
Also in attendance at the meeting were the governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and Senator Dino Melaye.
CompassNG gathered that one othe issues discussed at the meeting was how to protect the interests of the former senators, elected on the platform of the PDP.
A source at the meeting also said the meeting discussed how to deal with what the source described as “vultures that are bent on hijacking it to serve the interest of a few in 2023.”
Also on Thursday, the meeting of former governors who served under the platform of the PDP also took place.
Present at the former PDP Governors’ meeting were Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti; Peter Obi, Anambra; Liyel Imoke, Cross River; Babangida Aliyu, Niger); and Bukola Saraki, Kwara.
Apart from these two ’emergency’ caucuses of the party, CompassNG reports that the party also has other caucuses like the National Assembly caucus, House of Representatives caucus, Senate caucus, former ministers’ forum, former national officers’ forum, among others.
Despite the emergence of all these caucuses, the PDP only recognises the National Caucus, whose members usually meet ahead of the party’s NEC meeting.
Though not all the members of the caucuses are statutorily delegates to the party’s national convention, it was also learnt that they might take a common decision on the crisis in the party.
