PDP crisis: North-west stakeholders disown Kabiru Turaki’s adoption for national chair

Turaki

Some north-west stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the endorsement of Kabiru Turaki, ex-minister of special duties and intergovernmental affairs, as the consensus candidate for national chairman.

BACKGROUND

Northern PDP stakeholders adopted Turaki as their sole consensus candidate during a series of meetings held on Wednesday night. Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi; Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau; Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa; Dauda Lawal of Zamfara; and Umar Damagum, PDP national chairman, attended the meeting.

Others were former Senate President Bukola Saraki, Jerry Gana, former minister of information; Abba Moro, senate minority leader; Ibrahim Shekarau, former minister of education, among others.

The PDP national convention to elect new national working committee (NWC) leaders is billed for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. Thecable