The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it will repeat its
congresses in seven states where it encountered challenges during the
conduct of the exercises.
The Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff,
announced the decision in a communiqué issued at the end of the 71st
meeting of PDP National Executives Committee (NEC) held in Abuja on
Tuesday.
He listed some of the states affected as Sokoto, Zamfara, Lagos, Yobe and Anambra.
“These
congresses will be revisited unless the leaders and people affected
look at it and resolve to the satisfaction of everybody, otherwise the
congresses will be repeated,’’ Sheriff said.
He said NEC with the
Board of Trustees (BoT) resolved that the party would hold its national
convention in Port-Harcourt on Saturday as planned.We also resolved that at the convention NEC will take a resolution
that the party’s presidential candidate will come from the north.
“We
also state that the PDP national chairmanship position will go to the
southern part of the country after our party’s presidential candidate
wins the election,’’ he added.
The NEC also called on the Federal
Government and the anti-graft agencies to investigate other political
parties’ 2015 general elections campaign funds, he said.
Mr. Sheriff said that the committee observed that only PDP members, no fewer than 20, were being arrested over campaign funding.
“We
believe that PDP is not the only party that went for the election; we
are also calling on the government and its anti-graft agencies to
investigate other political parties’ campaign funds,’’ he said
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