Ibadan national convention must go ahead as planned – PDP
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described its proposed national convention on Saturday in Ibadan as sacrosanct despite calls for postponement and an announcement of the cancellation by a faction.
Chairman of the 2025 National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC) and Adamawa Governor Umar Fintiri stated this while addressing journalists after the party’s stakeholders meeting in Abuja.
The stakeholders who attended the meeting included members of the PDP Governors’ Forum, National Working Committee (NWC), Board of Trustees among others.
“We’ve just come out of our critical stakeholders meeting where a lot of elaborate decisions were taken.
“I want to tell you here that we are going to Ibadan for our convention and the convention is sacrosanct,” Fintiri said.
The meeting took place at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja.
Some of the stakeholders sighted at the meeting were Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo, PDP National Chairman, Umar Damagum, National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, and former Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki.
Others are former Minister, Tanimu Turaki, who is the consensus candidate for the position of national chairman at the convention.
Also at the meeting were Senator representing Kogi Central, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Chairman, PDP South- South Caretaker committee, Chief Emmanuel Ogidi, among others.
On Thursday, chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) Senator Adolphus Wabara insisted that the national convention in Ibadan must go on as planned.
Wabara spoke after receiving the report of the Reconciliation Committee in Abuja.
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