PDP discloses why it did not elect national officers


Nigeria's foremost opposition party. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has held its national convention against all odds at the Party's state headquarters in Port Harcourt.The party through its Publicity secretary of the National Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye disclosed why it did not conduct elections into its national offices during the convention.

Speaking  to newsmen  on Wednesday, Adeyeye said that the party did not want to create chaos. Stating that the decision to extend the tenure of the Senator Ahmed Markafi Caretaker Committee was to ensure that the PDP had a temporary leadership in place.

In his words: “The party inaugurated the new NEC today and it met and decided to go ahead with our national convention. The convention relocated to the secretariat of the party in Rivers state.

“The place was big enough to accommodate all the delegates of the party and other leaders of the party.

“Thank God we had our convention and within these twelve months, everything will be settled.

“The federal high court in Port Harcourt made very sensitive pronouncements that the convention should go ahead but they were ignored by security agencies.


“We have a judgement of court delivered by Justice Mohammad Liman that gave legality to our convention”, he added.

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