Many members of the Board of Trustees, National Caucus and several others refused to attend the National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party which was held in Abuja, on Thursday,

The PDP chieftains were reportedly incensed by the decision of the national leadership of the party to hold NEC meeting without following due process.

Over the years, the NEC meeting of the PDP was usually held after both the BoT and the National Caucus of the party must have met, but this time around, the National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, was said to have refused to call for the meetings of the two organs of the party before calling for the NEC meeting.

The zoning committee, headed by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, recommended that the next national chairman of the party should come from the North-East, a zone which Sheriff is from.

The zoning arrangements are:

National Chairman – North-East

Deputy National – Chairman-South-South

National Secretary – South-West

Deputy National Secretary – North-Central

National Legal Adviser – North-West

Deputy National Legal Adviser – South-South

National Treasurer – South-South

Deputy National Treasurer – North-West

National Financial Secretary – North-Central

Deputy National Financial Sec. – South-East

National Woman Leader – North-West

Deputy National Woman Leader – South-South

National Auditor – South-West

Deputy National Auditor – North-East

National Publicity Secretary – South-West

Deputy National Publicity Sec. – North-Central

National Organizing Secretary – South-East

Deputy National Organizing Sec. – North-Central

National Youth Leader – South- East

Deputy National Youth Leader – North-West