The three ad-hoc delegates chosen at Ward Congresses and a National Delegate per Local Government are eligible to vote at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention on the 28th and 29th of May to determine its 2023 Presidential candidate.
On Saturday, PDP’s National Organizing Secretary, Hon. Umar M. Nature, issued a statement confirming this.
According to Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act of 2022, delegates voting at political parties’ indirect primaries and national conventions to elect candidates for elections must be democratically chosen for that purpose solely.
The statement partly read “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 (3) AD-HOC Delegates per ward, elected at the Ward Congresses and one (1) National Delegate per Local Government, elected at the Local Government Area Congresses.
“Furthermore, the NWC wishes to inform our Party members that the State Houses of Assembly Primaries to elect our State House of Assembly candidates, earlier scheduled for Saturday, May 21, 2022 will now hold on Sunday, May 22, 2022 from 8:00am to 12 noon; while the House of Representatives Primaries to elect our House of Representatives candidates will also hold on Sunday, May 22, 2022 from 2:00 pm”.
PDP charged all aspirants, critical stakeholders, leaders and its teeming members to take note.
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