KOGI: PDP moves to elect new party officials

The Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is making moves to elect new party officials following a decision by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

This was revealed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday in Lokoja according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Ologbondiyan who said the Congress will not hold at Local Government and ward levels of the party, noted that the decision to hold the congress was due to the fact that the tenure of the present state officers will come to an end on July 22.

The move comes after the party set a monetary benchmark for the purchase of governorship elections forms for the forthcoming polls in holding in Kogi and Bayelsa states.

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Rising from its 86th Emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, the opposition party pegged the nomination at N20 million and the expression of interest for the form would be sold at N1 million.

According to Ologbondiyan, who was asked why the party decided to increase the price of the form, he said the cost of conducting primary election was very high.

He also pledged that the party would conduct a free, fair and credible primary in Bayelsa and Kogi states to produce credible candidates in the forthcoming elections.

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