Iyorchia Ayu, a former senate president, has been elected as
the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ayu, who was earlier adopted as the consensus candidate for
the position, won the election unchallenged with 3,426 votes.
Taofeek Arapaja, a former deputy governor of Oyo state, has
also emerged as deputy national chairman (south).
Arapaja polled 2,004 votes to defeat Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former governor of Osun
state, who scored 705 votes.
For the position of the deputy national chairman (north),
Umar Damagum, former governorship candidate of Yobe state, polled 2,222 votes
to beat Inna Ciroma, former minister of women affairs from Borno state, who
garnered 365 votes.
Muhammed Suleiman from Kaduna scored 3,072 votes to defeat
Usman Elkudan, also from Kaduna, who scored 219 for the position of youth
leader.
Only three out of the 21 national working committee (NWC)
positions were contested, while consensus candidates were adopted for the
remaining positions.
The other NWC positions include national secretary, deputy
national secretary, national treasurer, deputy national treasurer, national
financial secretary, deputy national financial secretary, national organising
secretary, and deputy national organising secretary.
Others are national publicity secretary, deputy national
publicity secretary, national auditor, deputy national auditor, national legal
adviser, deputy national legal adviser, national women leader, deputy national
women leader, and deputy national youth leader.
The candidates were declared duly elected by Ahmadu Fintiri,
governor of Adamawa state and chief returning officer of the election.
In his remarks, Ayu said the opposition party is back to
rescue Nigeria from the “terrible mess” the country has been pushed into.
He added that Nigerians will see a “mammoth crowd” defecting
to the party in the coming days.
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