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The ongoing crisis tearing the Peoples Democratic Party apart worsened yesterday as majority members of its Board of Trustees, National Caucus and others boycotted its National Executive Committee meeting, which was held in Abuja.The development was said to have been fuelled by the decision of the national leadership of the party to hold NEC meeting without following due process, Punch reports.Before now, NEC meeting is held after both the BoT and the National Caucus of the party must have met and agreed on a particular date."">However, the National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, was said to have deliberately refused to call for the meetings of the two organs of the party before he hurriedly convened the NEC meeting.It was gathered that Sheriff decided not to allow the two meetings to hold because of the resolve of their members to oppose the recommendation of the zoning
committee.Earlier in the day, a member of the BoT from the North-East, had called the attention to what he described as an “open confrontation” to the members of the board and the national caucus by Sheriff’s style of leadership.The BoT member said, “We were not told about the NEC meeting. Text messages were sent to the people they wanted to be there. Ordinarily, the meeting of the BoT and the National Caucus ought to have been on Tuesday and Wednesday before the NEC meeting."">“At these two meetings, we would have reviewed the report of the zoning committee and take a position on the zoning of the office of the national chairman to the North-East. We wouldn’t have supported it.“It is apparent that these set of leaders want to kill the party, but God in His infinite mercy won’t allow it. We would regroup to take action.”Only the Acting Chairman of the BoT, Walid Jibrin, and two other members were seen at the meeting.Jibrin said, “The exclusion of the BoT members from the meeting is not deliberate and I appeal to all members of the BoT that they should not take offence that there was no meeting of the BoT.“We will have another meeting after this one. We are very aware of the various meetings everywhere, I have decided that I will not attend any meeting apart from the properly organised meetings, because we have to be very careful in the way we hold meetings these days.“Anyway, we have to use these meetings positively in a way that they will benefit the party.“Many of us who are founding members of the PDP will not leave the PDP and the PDP will never die.“We will continue to be in the PDP and whatever mistake is there we will remain there to correct and make our contributions because leaving the PDP is not the answer.”