Sacking looms at PDP headquarters

National Chairman, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

Anytime from now, some directors at the national headquarters of the  Peoples Democratic Party will be asked to resign their appointments or be sacked.

A member of the newly-constituted National Working Committee of the party told us on Saturday, that the party was itching to implement the Federal Government policy that all directors that had been in office for more than eight years should  be eased out.

The source therefore said that in order to reform the party, all directors that had spent more than eight years in office would be eased out.

“Those who have been there as directors for a very long time would be asked to go and we will pay them off.  We need fresh blood in the party now.”

It was also learnt that the new leadership had already zoned the offices of the directors to the six geo-political zones. The office of the Director of Organisation has been zoned  to the North-East, while  someone from the North-West will fill the office of  Director of Administration. The South-West gets the office of the Director of Finance.

Meanwhile, the party has described Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the most suitable of all the aspirants to the presidency of the World Bank.

It therefore urged Africa and the world to support her as the next president of the bank.

The party said this in a statement in Abuja on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh.

The party described Okonjo-Iweala as a global citizen whose critical roles in global financial circles had positioned her as an eagle on the tallest tree in contest for the leadership of the world apex financial institution.

The statement reads in part, “She is without doubt the best person to lead the World Bank at this material time of global economic challenges.

“Her decades-long track record of excellence in financial management, locally and internationally, is an unimpeachable score card, a rare type that the global community is in dire need of at the moment.”

The party added that the instantaneous worldwide endorsement, which her aspiration has received since she declared her intention, confirmed the popular saying that “a golden fish has no hiding place.”

The party also commended all countries and international organisations that had risen beyond politics to emphatically declare their support for Okonjo-Iweala, who is also Nigeria’s minister of finance.