The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and stakeholders from the North Central have adopted former Senate President, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, for the position of national chairman.
The position of the party leaders and stakeholders from the zone was made known to newsmen by the Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom at the end of stakeholders meeting Tuesday night.
The meeting had in attendance former Senate President Bukola Saraki; ex-Information Minister Professor Jerry Gana; former governors of Niger, Kogi and Kwara states, Babangida Aliyu, Ibrahim Idris and Abdulfatai Ahmed, respectively, among others.
He said: “This is stakeholders meeting of the North Central PDP in continuation of finding consensus candidate for the national chairmanship of our party.
“We are looking for someone with the capacity, commitment, love and passion for our party. We met here for several hours and among the five persons that were contesting.
“As the leadership of our party from North Central, we unanimously agreed to sponsor former Senate President, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to be National Chairman of our party.
“There was no voting; we all agreed that he is the right person for this job at this time.
“Tomorrow (today, Wednesday), the northern stakeholders of our PDP are going to meet. So he will be presented to the northern caucus of the party.
“I think that by the grace of God they will also accept him.”
