Makarfi-led PDP holds primaries
on Monday

In a deft move to assure its
anxious supporters that it would
partake in the forthcoming
governorship elections, the
Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)
caretaker committee under the
leadership of Senator Ahmed
Makarfi has fixed the governorship primary for Monday.

Former governor of Benue State,
Gabriel Suswam who is the
chairman of the panel that
conducted the election of ad-hoc
delegates yesterday submitted its report to the caretaker committee.
Suswam told Senator Abdul Ningi in charge of Mobilization and Organization for the party that the exercise was hitch-free in all the 192 Wards in Edo State. He further declared that the three governorship aspirants in the race for the PDP ticket were convinced about the transparency of the exercise and have signed an agreement to accept the outcome of the Monday exercise.
Suswam
noted that the election of the
delegates was officially monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies.

Three aspirants of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) were
yesterday, screened in Benin by a four-man committee set up by the National Caretaker Committee of the party under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Markafi.
Those screened were Pastor
Osagie Ize- Iyamu, Chief Solomon Edebiri and Mr. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen.
The Screening Committee headed by former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adediran, has as members Senator Abiye Sekibo, Senator Joshua Idaini, Mr. Ndubusi Nwigwe and Mr. Faruk Yahaya Idris.
Shortly after the screening exercise which took place at the party’s secretariat along First East Cirular Road, Benin, the chairman of the committee, Prof. Adeniran addressed journalists, saying: “we are here for the screening of governorship aspirants with a view to electing a candidate through a credible and transparent primary election that will be taking place on
Monday.

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