Nigeria, May 4 -- The National Executive Committee (NEC) of a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has constituted a 13-member interim National Working Committee (NWC).

The NEC appointed Kabiru Turaki as acting chairman, while a former senator, Taofeeq Arapaja, was named secretary of the interim committee.

The decision was taken at the PDP faction's 103rd NEC meeting convened by the party's Board of Trustees (BoT), led by Adolphus Wabara, at the Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja on Monday.

Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, was in attendance.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that a Supreme Court judgment last Thursday invalidated the faction of the NWC earlier led by Mr Turaki.

Following the judgment, the BoT assumed leadership, arguing that...