The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has complied with section 84(8) of the Electoral Act and submitted list of three elected ad-hoc delegates per ward and one elected national delegate per local government that will vote at its forthcoming primaries and national convention.
Its National Organising Secretary, Mr Umar Bature, in a statement on Saturday, said the decision was taken in consonance with Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act 2022 as amended by the National Assembly.
According to the sub-section, delegates to vote at indirect primaries and national convention of political parties to elect candidates for elections shall be those democratically elected for that purpose only.
The section therefore allows only statutory delegates, including the president, governors, National Assembly members, state assembly members, local government chairmen and councilors, to participate in political parties’ congresses and conventions.
“Consequently those qualified and eligible to vote as delegates in the forthcoming primaries and national convention of our great Party, the PDP are the three ad hoc delegates per ward, elected at the ward congresses.
“Also qualified are one national delegate per local government elected at the local government area congresses,” Bature stressed.
He also stated that the party’s National Working Committee and the States Houses of Assembly primaries had been shifted from Saturday, May 21 to Sunday, May 22.
He added that the House of Representatives primaries to elect PDP House of Representatives candidates would also hold on Sunday, May 22.
Bature advised all PDP aspirants, critical stakeholders, leaders and teeming members to take note of the changes.
