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Saraki Urges PDP To Appoint Caretaker Committee, Shelve Convention

A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to shelve its national convention scheduled for 15-16 November 2025, advising the opposition party to instead appoint a caretaker committee. Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, stated this when he received members of the PDP BoT Reconciliation Team on Wednesday. “My advice to the BOT team is that the only solution available to us now is for the party to set up a Caretaker Committee to steer the affairs of the party for the time being,” Senator Saraki wrote on his X handle after the meeting. “This must be done in the next two days. This is the path to true reconciliation and stability of the Party. It is also the best way to give confidence to our members who intend to contest elections on the PDP platform.” READ ALSO: PDP Is In Trouble, Party Comatose — Fayose He said the crisis rocking the party makes it difficult for any “serious politician with electoral ambition will seek to contest on the platform of the PDP, not knowing whether his or her nomination would be valid or declared null and void”. The ex-lawmaker warned that while the crisis over the convention does not bode well for the country’s main opposition party and Nigeria’s democracy, going ahead with it will only escalate the impasse. “Therefore, going ahead with the Convention as scheduled is a waste of effort,” he said. “It does not have my support. It’s not too late to find a win-win solution”. His call for the setting up of a caretaker committee comes amid the tussle in the PDP over the conference. There have been conflicting judgements about the convention slated for Ibadan in Oyo State. Last week, a High Court in Oyo asked the party and its acting national chairman, Umar Damagum, to go ahead with the convention. A few days later, an Abuja High Court barred the PDP from holding the event and stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from supervising it or recognising the outcome of the convention.

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Saraki Urges PDP To Appoint Caretaker Committee, Shelve Convention

A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to shelve its national convention scheduled for 15-16 November 2025, advising the opposition party to instead appoint a caretaker committee.

Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, stated this when he received members of the PDP BoT Reconciliation Team on Wednesday.

“My advice to the BOT team is that the only solution available to us now is for the party to set up a Caretaker Committee to steer the affairs of the party for the time being,” Senator Saraki wrote on his X handle after the meeting.

“This must be done in the next two days. This is the path to true reconciliation and stability of the Party. It is also the best way to give confidence to our members who intend to contest elections on the PDP platform.”

READ ALSO: PDP Is In Trouble, Party Comatose — Fayose

He said the crisis rocking the party makes it difficult for any “serious politician with electoral ambition will seek to contest on the platform of the PDP, not knowing whether his or her nomination would be valid or declared null and void”.

The ex-lawmaker warned that while the crisis over the convention does not bode well for the country’s main opposition party and Nigeria’s democracy, going ahead with it will only escalate the impasse.

“Therefore, going ahead with the Convention as scheduled is a waste of effort,” he said. “It does not have my support. It’s not too late to find a win-win solution”.

His call for the setting up of a caretaker committee comes amid the tussle in the PDP over the conference.

There have been conflicting judgements about the convention slated for Ibadan in Oyo State.

Last week, a High Court in Oyo asked the party and its acting national chairman, Umar Damagum, to go ahead with the convention.

A few days later, an Abuja High Court barred the PDP from holding the event and stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from supervising it or recognising the outcome of the convention.

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