The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s National Convention started on Saturday, October 6 and is expected to end tomorrow, Sunday, October 7.
The opposition party's bigwigs and delegates are in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital for the make or mar convention and presidential primary where they will elect the presidential candidate that will be slugging it out with President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The party said it has put in place strategies to ensure that the presidential primary is transparent. According to the PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbindiyan, the National Working Committee (NWC) has broadened the participation of the presidential aspirants by giving them opportunity to nominate two people each into the accreditation and electoral committees respectively, sunlike in the past when aspirants were restricted to nominating agents to represent them during delegates elections.
He said: “Each of the presidential aspirant will nominate two people into the accreditation committee and another two into electoral committee. This is to ensure that none of the aspirants is left in the dark as to what the party is doing concerning the convention.
“The PDP will publish names of all the delegates and make same available to our presidential aspirants before the convention.” Ologbondiyan added that the party was looking forward to the emergence of a candidate with the capacity to quickly revamp the economy upon election, with a view to bringing to an end to “the disastrous stewardship of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration.’’ Governor Nyesom Wike, on his Twitter page, welcomed party members to Rivers state were the convention is holding. At present, the PDP has about 13 presidential aspirants who want to emerge as the flagbearer of the major opposition party in the 2019 presidential election.
The aspirants are: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Senator Bukola Saraki; Ibrahim Dankwambo; Rabiu Kwankwaso; Aminu Tambuwal; Ahmed Makarfi; Jonah Jang; Senator David Mark; Sule Lamido; Atahiru Bafarawa; Tanimu Turaki; Datti Baba-Ahmed; and Stanley Osifo.
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