Okwesilieze Nwodo, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not particularly happy when he arrived his office at Wadata Plaza, from the National Assembly last Monday evening. A few hours earlier, he had attended a public hearing of the bills to amend the Electoral Act 2010 during which he presented the position of the ruling party.
Mr Nwodo felt uncomfortable with the exercise, particularly the lawmakers' defence of the proposed amendment which, if passed into law, will admit the federal lawmakers to the national executive committee of their respective parties.
According to one of his aides, the national chairman summoned a few members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to his office and within minutes, put a call across to the Senate President, David Mark and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole informing them of the intention of the leadership of the party to meet with its members in both chambers.
An agreement was reached for the PDP leadership to meet with the about 80 senators and 260 members of the House on Wednesday and quickly, Mr Nwodo's aide on national assembly affairs went to work to make the necessary arrangement for the parley.
The agenda was obvious - the amendment bill, which the party boss and all the stakeholders who attended the public hearing, had condemned.
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