Mr.
Gabriel Suswam, the Chairman of PDP National Convention Screening Committee,
has said that the committee will screen 57 aspirants who bought forms to
contest for positions in the party.
Suswam, a former Governor of Benue, made the information known in Port Harcourt on Monday at the commencement of the screening preparatory to the party`s national convention holding on Wednesday. He said that the exercise was going on satisfactorily.
Meanwhile, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the
committee has screened aspirants for the post of national chairman, including a
former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Chief Bode George.
The others are a former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran,
and a former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi and PDP
Lagos governorship candidate in 2015, Jimi Agbaje.
NAN
also learnt that the aspirants pledged to accept the outcome of the convention
as well as their loyalty to the party toward rebuilding it.
Other
members of the Screening Committee are a former Governor of Sokoto State,
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former Imo Governor Achike Udenwa, former Adamawa
Governor, Boni Haruna, and a former Deputy President of the Senate Ibrahim
Mantu.
Others
are Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe and a former Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs
Josephine Anenih as well as Rivers Attorney General, Chief Emmanuel Aguma, who
is the Secretary. (NAN)
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