Retired Gen. Haliru Akilu, a former Director of National Intelligence and Director of Military Intelligence at various times in the 1990s, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja.
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Agunloye, a former minister, made the statement in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The Governor, in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo, in Yenagoa on Sunday, also described Professors Jerry Gana and Tunde Adeniran as icons of democracy and leaders of progressive politics in the PDP and the country, stressing that they must be wooed back to the PDP fold
The prominent members of the party met at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja for a meeting to that effect
The party chief, who was a National Ex-Officio, said it was unthinkable that Secondus could garner such score, while the runner-up and former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, had just 230 votes
While Secondus scored 2,000 votes out of the 2,396 votes cast at the convention, his closest rival and former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, scored 230 votes and High Chief Raymond Dokpesi polled 66 votes.
Secondus, in the early hours of Sunday was declared the new chairman with an overwhelming defeat of Prof. Tunde Adeniran and Chief Raymond Dokpesi
The aspirants announced their positions in separate interviews with newsmen at the venue of the convention on Saturday in Abuja
After several meetings, horse trading and stepping down between Friday and the wee hours of Saturday, the three founding members of the party emerged as favourites for the national chairman’s seat
According to him, his visit is also to give them the chance to make intelligent choice during convention, based on facts and figures, what they had seen and what they were expecting.
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 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
Adeniran told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview on Wednesday that being a gentleman; he remained the best candidate in the race for the national chairmanship seat of the party.
Markarfi gave the clarification when the NCC members met with eight national chairmanship aspirants at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja
Adesina replied to the comment by Jonathan on his Twitter handle on Saturday
Jonathan stated this when he received one of the party’s national chairmanship aspirants, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, in his office in Abuja.