Nigeria: PDP factions clash over NEC meeting date — Africa Links 24

Uncertainty remains over the status of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 100th National Executive Committee, INEC, meeting due to ongoing internal crisis within the National Working Committee, NWC.

The acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum’s faction of the NWC claimed the NEC meeting had been postponed. However, Deputy National Chairman (South), Taofeek Arapaja’s faction insisted otherwise.

While Damagum’s camp fixed its expanded caucus meeting for 1 p.m., Arapaja’s group…