Kabiru Turaki, a former minister of Particular Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, on Monday submitted his Expression of Curiosity and Nomination Kinds to contest for the place of nationwide chairman of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP).
The submission is a part of the preparations for the celebration’s nationwide conference scheduled for 15 and 16 November 2025 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Mr Turaki, an indigene of Kebbi State, is believed to have been endorsed by Northern PDP stakeholders as their consensus candidate.
He submitted his varieties on the Nationwide Conference Organising Committee (NCOC) Secretariat, Legacy Home, Abuja and was accompanied by pals and political associates.
Nonetheless, Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State and former minister of overseas affairs, who had additionally declared curiosity within the chairmanship race regardless of the consensus association, was unable to buy his nomination kind.
Mr Lamido arrived on the celebration’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday to acquire the shape however met no officers to take care of him.
His try got here simply hours after the Chairman of the NCOC, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State, introduced the postponement of the screening train for aspirants in search of elective workplaces forward of the conference.
The screening, initially scheduled for Tuesday, 28 October, was suspended till additional discover.
Visibly displeased, Mr Lamido informed journalists that he would search authorized redress if the celebration didn’t promote the nomination kind to him earlier than the conference date.
“If I’m not capable of get the shape, I’ll go to court docket, easy,” he stated.
The opposition PDP, which ruled Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, is anticipated to elect a brand new nationwide chairperson on the conference.
With the disagreement amongst aspirants, the competition might seemingly spill into the courts, regardless that the chairmanship place has been retained within the North.
Throughout its 102nd Nationwide Government Committee (NEC) assembly held on 25 August on the celebration’s nationwide secretariat in Abuja, the PDP resolved to zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the South, whereas retaining the place of nationwide chairman for the North.
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Umar Damagun who’s the chairperson of the celebration is from Yobe State, North-east Nigeria.
The zoning choice has acquired assist amongst celebration members and leaders, though a number of have opposed it, arguing that the presidential ticket ought to be open to all areas.
The disagreement led a gaggle of celebration members loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to method the court docket to cease the deliberate nationwide conference.
Nonetheless, on 9 October, the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja refused to grant an interim injunction restraining the celebration from holding each its NEC assembly and the conference.
