Posted on Feb 28, 2020
The National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, to head the party panel that will probe the performance of the party in the 2019 presidential election, other elections including the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, while reading the communique of the 89th NEC meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said the Secretary of the committee was Dr Emmanuel Agbo. He listed other members to include Babangida Aliyu and Senator Istifanus Gyang (North-Central), Sule Lamido, and Tanimu Turaki (North-West), Yakubu Dogora, and Hassan Baduje (North-East), Austin Okpara and Senator Stella Omu (South-South), and Francis Nwaifuru and Austine Nnamani (South-East).
He stated that the party was waiting to hear from justices at the Supreme Court on its appeal for the review of the apex court’s judgment on Imo State which sacked its 2019 Imo State governorship election, Chief Emeka Ihedioha.
He also said NEC agreed to express concern in other elections in relations to the weight of evidence. The other elections are the presidential, Osun, Kaduna, Kano, and Katsina governorship elections.
He also said the party would ensure free, fair and credible primaries.
Ologbondiyan said, “NEC also resolved that members should abide by the rules that guide the congresses. We must do everything in a manner that must guarantee free, fair, and credible congresses and that our irreducible minimum is the presidential congress of the party which held in Port Harcourt.”