Some bigwigs of the PDP from the South (file photo)
National Executive Committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to consider the possibility of changing the party’s name before the 2019 general election.
Spokesman for the party Kola Ologbondiyan told reporters in Abuja the party had constituted a committee on harmonisation.
“The responsibility of the Harmonisation Committee is to commence the process of the possibility of change of name as part of effort to re-brand our party and to reposition it for 2019 general elections,”’he said.
“So we await the outcome of the Harmonisation Committee.”
Ologbondiyan said the party also approved the expulsion of Sen. Buruji Kashamu, representing represents Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly and three other PDP members in the state.