Barely two days after a Chairmanship aspirant in the just-concluded December 9 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, said he had gone to court to challenge his exclusion from the convention, a parallel secretariat of the party has been opened by some defeated aspirants.
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The group, which led by one Prince Obi-Nwosu Emmanuel Butches who said he was a member of the National Convention Planning Committee, accused former Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led committee.
”The petition written by some of the aspirants with respect to the chairman and secretary of the electoral committee, former Governor Gabriel Suswam and Dr. Sunday Onor respectively who were clearly identified as lead campaigners to one of the chairmanship aspirants, were completely disregarded by the NCC and never attended to.
“The actions of the Chairman of the Electoral Planning Committee, Gabriel Suswam during the convention showed clearly that they had concluded the election even before the date of the convention. What a tragedy for democracy!” Butches alleged
