Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Convention slated for October 30th and 31st to elect members of the new National Working Committee (NWC), majority of the positions will be by consensus.
The only positions the 3600 delegates will elect On Saturday that are not on consensus are, Deputy National Chairman (South), Auditor and Youth Leader, while others will be affirmed on consensus.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the Chairman of Convention National Committee and governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri said, “as you can see, all the subcommittees have been mobilized and they’re fully prepared to deliver by tomorrow, most of the activities have all been completed and we’re fully satisfied.
“All the positions being contesting for are fully occupied. The result of the screening committee was submitted to me yesterday and all the positions and individuals that were disqualified, was further uphold by the Appeal Committee.
“At the moment, we’re making efforts to reconcile most of our contestants so that we can streamline them to have a better Convention, which will be hitch free and deepened our chances for 2023. Most of the positions as at today, except for three will not be contested.
“At the moment we are talking to those that are contesting for the Office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) and the those that are contesting for Office of the Auditor, and those that are contesting for Office of the Youth Leader.
“I think at the moment these are just the offices that still have many people contesting for them. The rest have been streamlined and the consensus looks like okay.
“We will be expecting 3600 delegates tomorrow. This is exactIy what I told you that I’ll be updating you because we’re still packaging the list of delegates.”
