North-West stakeholders meet over congress

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has affirmed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention would still hold as scheduled on August 17, 2016 in Port Harcourt.

He said the court was yet to hear the suit filed by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff challenging the holding of the national convention.

Wike, who stated this while addressing South-South executive committee of the party at the Government House, Port Harcourt yesterday, said: “The court could not have sacked Senator Ahmed Makarfi because it cannot sit on appeal on the judgment of a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction.”

The governor said there was an application to allow Makarfi to be joined as a party in the suit, adding that the suit was adjourned to August 15.

According to him, the suit challenging the conduct of the national convention is yet to be entertained by the court.

Meanwhile, ahead of its national convention, PDP stakeholders from the ‎North-West, comprising Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi and Sokoto states, yesterday converged in Kaduna to deliberate on the forthcoming national congress.

The meeting according to National Vice Chairman, North-West, Ambassador Ibrahim Kazaure, was to, among others, discuss the positions zoned to the region, stressing that 11 positions had been zoned to the North, with North-West having four, North-East three and the North Central four.