Dare Babalola
Adamawa State governor and Peoples Democratic Party Convention Planning Committee Chairman, Ahmadu Fintiri, has announced the party’s elective convention will hold in Ibadan, urging all stakeholders to participate.
Fintiri disclosed this in a brief interview with journalists on Thursday night.
The meeting, which was held at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, was attended by the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, the PDP National Chairman, Umar Damagum, ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba and ex-Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Tanimu Turaki, among others.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Gov Fintiri expressed excitement, saying, “We’ve just come out of our critical stakeholders’ meeting where a lot of elaborate decisions were taken.
“I want to tell you here that we are going to Ibadan for our convention, and the convention is sacrosanct.”
Efforts to get further comments from him on the state of the party failed as his security aides quickly led him away.
Meanwhile, the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman, Adolphus Wabara, stated earlier that national convention in Ibadan must be held.
Wabara said this when he received the report of the Reconciliation Committee in Abuja on Thursday. He said, despite the internal crisis and legal challenges facing the party, the convention must go ahead in Ibadan as planned.
“You know the Governor’s Forum, the National Working Committee, the BoT in our last meeting, our communique made mention of us going for the convention. But, if for any reason, the court of law decides otherwise, because we are relying on the judgment of the Supreme Court, you know, which should have guided the lower courts as of now to take a decision.
“I mean, in a civilised world, these things are interwoven and interconnected. But as far as the organs of the party are concerned, the convention will hold. But, if we are stopped by the courts, we are a law-abiding party, we have always been there, we will still get there, then we will probably obey the law, or obey the last order, as the case may be,” he said.
