Board of Trustees

PDP Crisis: BoT Members To Hold Key Meeting With Wike Today

October 4, 2022 6:59 am

As part of its reconciliation mission, the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will today meet with the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, over the lingering crisis rocking the party.

The BoT’s meeting with Wike in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, comes after the advisory body met with the PDP presidential candidate in Abuja, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday. The BoT has also met with the vice presidential candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

Recall that Wike and some other aggrieved governors and party leaders pulled out of the party’s presidential campaign council following the refusal of the PDP national …

Northerners Shouldn’t Dominate Top PDP Positions – BoT Chair

August 24, 2022 7:08 am

Amidst the ongoing crisis in the opposition party, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Board of Trustees has given reasons why that the party cannot allow its top positions to be dominated by Northerners.

Senator Walid Jibrin in an earlier statement had observed that the party’s presidential candidate, National Chairman and BoT Chairman were all Northerners.

In another statement on Tuesday, he said his stance has not changed despite criticism, noting that the PDP is a “national party that caters for all Nigerians.”

His comment comes amid continued rift between the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers …

Shell Accused Of Discharging Toxic Chemicals In N’Delta

April 27, 2020 7:10 am

An Environmentalist, and Chairman, Board of trustees, Centre for Environmental Preservation and Development (CEPAD), Mr Furoebi Akene, has attributed the dead fishes littering the Niger Delta coastline to the discharge of toxic chemicals from Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)’s operations at Forcados oil export terminal.

Akene who spoke with DAILY POST on Sunday in Yenagoa reacted to NOSDRA’s position that it found no oil spills linking the massive death of fishes floating near the Atlantic coastline in Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom.

Akene alleged that Shell discharged toxic materials in the Atlantic off Delta coastline at Ogulagha.

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That Buhari Failed, Is NOT Unanimous – Tsav Replies NEF

February 10, 2020 11:34 am

Former Lagos Commissioner of Police and member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Board of Trustees, Abubakar Tsav, has decried the statement issued by some of the forum members on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying the board was not aware of the statement.

Tsav told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Makurdi, that the statement was not a “unanimous decision of entire NEF membership.”

According to him, members of the board of trustees were not invited for the meeting where the decision was taken.

A Professor Ango Abdullahi-led NEFmeeting on Sunday had declared that the …