The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that the October 31 date for the national elective convention of the party stands contrary to some media reports.
The spokesman of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in an interview with journalists at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, on Monday, that the convention committee of the party was working hard to ensure the success of the exercise.
Ologbondiyan said, “Preparations for the national convention are in place. As far as the party is concerned, the date for the convention remains October 30 to 31. As we speak, we read reports in the media that there are issues and that only three governors are working, that the national convention committee is not meeting and the National Working Committee members are not in their offices. That is totally and absolutely incorrect.
“Members of the NWC are currently deliberating on the success of the forthcoming national convention.
“The national convention organising committees leadership is in town, and these are the chairman, the governor of Adamawa State, Umaru Fintiri; the deputy chairman, Governor Diri Duoye of Bayelsa State, as well as the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, who is the secretary of the committee.
“The three of them are in Abuja to oversee the convention process while all the respective sub-committees are working and that’s why I’m briefing you now because I am the secretary of the publicity sub-committee.”
Ologbondiyan added that other logistics, including the venues for accreditation and the convention, had been sorted.
On the allegation that some members of the party approached a court in Kaduna to stop the convention, he said, “As far as the People’s Democratic Party is concerned, the party does not work on speculations. We don’t have a judgment before the party.
“You cannot be talking about court issues, it is only when there is a judgment before the court that we will begin to talk about court issues. All the plans have been set out for the national convention.”
