A former Senate President, Iyorcha Ayu, has emerged as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),after the party convention held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory(FCT)
Penpushing reports that, Ayu who was the consensus candidate scored 3,426 affirmative votes out of 3,511 accredited voters, while former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja also emerged as the Deputy National Chairman (South).
The Deputy National Chairman (South).recorded a total of 2,004 votes to defeat his only rival, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Governor of Osun, who polled 705 votes, while invalid votes were165.
Penpushing further reports that for the position of Deputy National Chairman (North) Umar Damagum scored a total of 2,222 votes to defeat his sole rival, Inna Ciroma, who polled 365 votes.
The position of National Youth Leader was won by Mohammed Suleiman having secured 3,072 votes, and his co-contestant, Usman Elkudan, had 219 votes, while move to achieve consensus candidates for all 21 elective national offices of the party suffered a setback as agreement could not be reached for three offices.
Penpushing also reports that, the three offices were the Deputy National Chairman (South) and Deputy National Chairman (North), as well as the National Youth Leader of the party, while those returned unopposed with uniform votes of 3,426 include Samuel Anyanwu (National Secretary); Ahmed Mohammed(National Treasurer); Umar Bature (National Organising Secretary) and Daniel Woyegikuro(National Financial Secretary).
The others elected unopposed are Stella Effah-Attoe as National Woman Leader; Kamaldeen Ajibade as National Legal Adviser; Debo Ologunagba as National Publicity Secretary and Okechukwu Daniel as National Auditor.
Penpushing reports that, they also include Setonji Kosheodo as Deputy National Secretary; Ndubisi David as Deputy National Treasurer; Ibrahim Abdullahi as Deputy National Publicity Secretary and Ighoyota Amori as Deputy National Organising Secretary,
The list include Adamu Kamale as Deputy National Financial Secretary; Hajara Wanka as Deputy National Woman Leader; Timothy Osadolor as Deputy National Youth Leader, Okechukwu Osuoha as Deputy National Legal Adviser and Albdulraman Mohammed as Deputy National Auditor.
Penpushing further reports that, the newly elected chairman in his remarks, expressed appreciation, boasting that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) was back to take over leadership of the country and develop it.
“I want to sincerely appreciate the PDP family. Today is simply a “thank you“ address. When we started this party 23 years ago, we never in any way imagined that the journey would get us to this stage’.
“A stage where we ruled for 16 years, we went into rough times, but for anybody who bothers to see, PDP is back. I want to appreciate all of you who have taken time as delegates as observers, as supporters, as members of the media as members of the security services who have made this event such a wonderful event.
‘Many people imagine that this convention will lead to the breakup of PDP. Those people who are dreaming like that, their dreams were misplaced. Those who have lost hope should know that Nigeria is not a divided country. A small group of people decided to divide Nigeria.
“PDP will come back to unite our people, put them together, north and south, east and west.We will move ahead to develop this country. We did it before. We are going to do it again. I want to thank the governors,” Ayu added.
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