The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) will hold an emergency national caucus meeting today in Abuja to determine its next line of action following the defeat the party suffered at the presidential election.
According to Punch, the party is expected to use the occasion to get the support of its members to seek redress in court over the outcome of the presidential election.
The meeting, which will take place at the party secretariat in Abuja on Monday (today), will be presided over by the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus.
The report quoted an inside source as saying the NWC would brief the members about the outcome of the presidential and National Assembly elections. It is also expected to deliberate on the forthcoming governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled for March 9.
“We will deliberate on what happened on February 23 across the country and also hear from our agents. We will also expect our presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to brief us. The party will back him on his decision to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress in court over the outcome of the rigged election. We will also discuss Saturday’s governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.”
Meanwhile, the national chairman of the PDP has assured that the party would reclaim its stolen mandate in court. Secondus insisted that the PDP and Atiku were robbed of their victory by the APC, which he alleged, was aided by the military and the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
“We will shock both Buhari and the APC at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal with facts and figures. We will also show videos and other ways through which the APC, INEC and the military collaborated to rig the election. The world and the entire country will see the details of what happened. We will reveal what they never believed we saw.
“No need to take issue with them. They (APC) claimed that they have evidence of fraud allegedly committed by the PDP as well. We will wait for them to come up with their lies. Unfortunately for them, the courts are not where propaganda will sway facts. Let them come with propaganda, we will hit them with facts and figures.”
