PDP constitutes committee to screen vice presidential candidate

The Peoples Democratic Party has set up a committee to screen its nominated vice presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.

The PDP announced this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Ologunagba said setting up of the Presidential Candidate Screening Committee by the party’s National Working Committee was in pursuance to Part VI, Paragraph 14 of the Electoral Guidelines of PDP.

According to him, Chief Tom Ikimi will be the Chairman of the Committee, while Dr. Akilu Indabawa would serve as Secretary and Sunday Omobo as Administrative Secretary.

Other members approved to serve in the committee were Captain Idris Wada, Chief Osita Chidoka, Binta Bello, Chief Mutiat Adedoja, Austin Opara, Prof. Aisha Madawaki, Ayotunde George-Ologun, Chief Chidiebelu Mofus and Fidelis Tapgun.

Ologunagba said the exercise would hold at PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja on Thursday at 10am.

NAN recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission had warned political parties that its candidate nomination portal for the 2023 general election would automatically shut down at 6pm on June 17 for national elections and 6pm on July 15 for state elections.

The commission also said presidential and governorship candidates must be accompanied by the names of their running mates, that is vice presidential and deputy governorship candidates, without which the nomination would be invalid.