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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has announced that its elective national convention will be held in November 2025.
The national elective convention was initially scheduled to hold in August but has been moved to November.
This was disclosed by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Thursday during the party’s 101st National Executive Committee meeting.
Ologunagba stated that the convention will now take place in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, instead of the initial venue of Kano State.
Meanwhile, the Acting PDP National Chairman, Umar Iliya Damagum, disclosed that most party members who had left for the coalition have started returning.
Damagum said those affected have started confessing that they never left the PDP but only attended a few coalition meetings.
The acting National Chairman described the coalition as a failed political experiment. He assured that only the PDP has the structure, national reach, and legacy to lead Nigeria forward.
Damagum insisted that only the PDP has what it takes to reclaim power from the All Progressives Congress-led government.
In other news, two Senators from Akwa Ibom State have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and joined the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Senators are Sampson Ekong, senator representing Akwa Ibom south, and Aniekan Bassey, the Akwa Ibom north-east.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio read their letters of defection during Wednesday’s plenary.
The Eastern Updates reports that there has been gale of defection from PDP to the ruling APC.
While several political bigwigs dumped the party for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, others have found solace in the APC.
The two Akwa Ibom Senators, according to the letters read by Akpabio, cited the leadership crisis rocking the PDP as their reasons for rejecting the party.
