PDP: Ibadan national convention sacrosanct

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the conduct of its National Convention on Saturday in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, is sacrosanct.

The Chairman of the 2025 National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC) and Adamawa State Governor, Umar Fintiri, said this while addressing journalists after the party’s stakeholders meeting held on Thursday night in Abuja.

The stakeholders who attended the meeting included members of the PDP Governors’ Forum, National Working Committee (NWC), and Board of Trustees (BoT), among others.

Fintiri said on Friday: “We’ve just come out of our critical stakeholders meeting where a lot of elaborate decisions were taken.

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“I want to tell you here that we are going to Ibadan for our convention and the convention is sacrosanct.”

The meeting took place at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja.

Some of the stakeholders sighted at the meeting were Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, PDP National Chairman Umar Damagum, National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba, and former Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Others included the former Minister Tanimu Turaki, who is the consensus candidate for the position of national chairman at the convention, and the senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, among others.

The Star