The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Salvador and other executives of the chapter were elected at a closed-door congress held at the King Seliat Hotel, Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos
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Chief Raymond Dokpesi, one of the aspirants, said the move was a fallout of the PDP Governors Forum meeting with the aspirants in Enugu
The Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, made the disclosure at a news briefing in the early hours of Monday after a five and half hour closed door meeting in Enugu
The meeting was held in Enugu on Sunday night
The position of the executives was made known in a statement by the Chairman of the South West Zonal Executive, Dr. Eddy Olafeso
Daniel, a frontline aspirant, said the decision was not in consonance with democratic principles
Fayose said this in an interview with The Eagle Online
This was contained in a document made available to journalists in Abuja on Saturday, with a promise to ensure one of the three is adopted as consensus candidate
The party has zoned the position to the South
According to a statement issued on Wednesday, by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose urged Agbaje to pursue his aspiration with decorum and make sure that the PDP and Nigeria remained the major reasons for the aspiration and not personal interests
Reacting to speculations that he might be stepping down for Chief Olabode George, another aspirant for the position, Daniel said he had no such plan
Due to the peculiar situation that the PDP has found itself today, the personality of its next leader must inspire rebirth, renovation, freshness and reassurance. Quite strategically, the PDP needs at its helms a youthful, digital, new generation thinker who can seamlessly deploy the agility and creativity of the young alongside the experience of the old
The Publicity Secretary, however, said the PDP would have achieved more than Ambode within the same period if its governorship aspirant in the 2015 elections, Jimi Agbaje, had been elected
Obanikoro was said to have made the first move two months ago
Governor Fayose, who emerged as Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum last Thursday, made this call when he visited former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, in his Lagos residence on Sunday night
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Dokpesi said the postponement of the convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State was “a blessing in disguise”
Agbaje, a candidate for the party’s national chairman position, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Rivers State that members would keep the party alive, being the main platform for the opposition in the country
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday described the confirmation of his victory in the April 11, 2015 governorship…
Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State in the just concluded elections, said: “Do we understand
what it means to change? It means allowing the President-elect to do things properly . . . Asking to be appointed because you qualify, and
not because you contributed to the victory. That is change. . . The change is for all Nigerians and if we do not change, then God help
us.”