{"id":86988,"date":"2021-10-13T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86988"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:04:23","slug":"pdp-chairmanship-north-central-adopts-ayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-chairmanship-north-central-adopts-ayu\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP chairmanship: North-Central adopts Ayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the October 31 national elective convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders and stakeholders of the party from the North Central, Tuesday night unanimously adopted former Senate President, Dr Iyorchia Ayu for the position of national chairman.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAyu had the backing of the Benue state governor and chairman of the PDP zoning committee, Dr Samuel Ortom, who after a few weeks of rooting for another former President of the Senate, David Mark, turned to Ayu, following alleged opposition by some party bigwigs.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing newsmen at the event, Benue state governor and deputy chairman of the PDP zoning Committee, Dr. Samuel Ortom said: \u201cThis is stakeholders meeting of the North Central PDP in continuation of finding consensus candidate for the national chairmanship of our party.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWe are looking for someone with the capacity, commitment, love and passion for our party. We met here for several hours and amongst the five persons that were contesting, the leadership of our party from North Central, we unanimously agreed to sponsor former Senate President Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to be national chairman of our party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no voting, we all agreed that he is the right person for this job at this time.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cTomorrow (today), the northern stakeholders of our PDP are going to meet. So he will be presented to the northern caucus of the party.<br \/>\nI think that by the grace of God they will also accept him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that other geo-political zones from the North are free to present their candidate, regardless of the choice of Ayu.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe meeting which had in attendance former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, ex- Information Minister, Professor Jerry Gana, former governors of Niger, Kogi and Kwara states, Babangida Aliyu, Ibrahim Idris and Abdulfatai Ahmed respectively, amongst others, lasted over three hours and attracted other big dignitaries from the geo-political zone.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the October 31 national elective convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders and stakeholders of the party from the North Central, Tuesday night unanimously adopted former Senate&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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