Former
Governor of Benue State and the Chairman of Peoples Democratic party National Convention
Screening Committee, Gabriel Suswam, has said the committee will screen 57
aspirants who bought forms to contest for positions in the party.
Suswam
made the information known in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday at the
commencement of the screening preparatory for the party’s National Convention
holding on Wednesday.
Meanwhile,
the News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the committee has screened aspirants for
the post of national chairman, including a former Deputy National Chairman of
PDP, Chief Bode George.
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The
others screened were a former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, and
a former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi.
Other
members of the Screening Committee are a former Governor of Sokoto State,
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa; former Imo State Governor, Achike Udenwa; former
Adamawa State Governor, Boni Haruna; and a former Deputy President of the
Senate, Ibrahim Mantu.
Others
are Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and a former Minister of Women Affairs, Josephine
Anenih, as well as the Rivers Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice,
Chief Emmanuel Aguma, who is the Secretary.
Meanwhile,
the party has vowed to hold its National Convention slated for Wednesday in
Port Harcourt in spite of an interim order stopping the exercise.
Prince
Dayo Adeyeye, a member of PDP National Caretaker Committee in charge of
Publicity, gave this indication on Monday.
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