Mr Dona Nwogbo has emerged the governorship candidate of the Taminu Turaki led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2027 elections in Enugu State.

Nwogbo becomes the third candidate that had emerged as the governorship candidate in the PDP in the state.

Earlier, a former Minister, Uche Nnaji and business man, Sampson Nnamani had emerged governorship candidates from primaries held by PDP factions in the state.

Nwogbo, emerged as the sole candidate of the party in the direct primaries held in the 260 wards across the state.

Also Basil Aguigwo, Nwatu Anthony and Asogwa Beatrice emerged the party’s Senatorial candidates of the party for Enugu West, Enugu East and Enugu North Senatorial districts, respectively

Isaac Onoyima; Nwatu Chukwudi; Lillian Ugwuoke; Onoja Uchechukwu; Nnaji Erobuike; Cosmas Onyia; Anikezie Michael and Eze Ephraim were declared candidates for the House of Representative positions for Igboeze south/Nsukka; NkanuEast/west; Enugu East/ Isiuzo; Aninri/Awgu/Oji River; Enugu North/South: Udi/ Ezeagu; Igbo Etiti/Uzouwani; Udenu/Igboeze North, respectively, among other candidates foe House of Assembly.

Declaring the results in Enugu on Thursday, the party’s Returning Officer for Enugu State primaries election, Dr Yarima Edachaba said: ” By the grace of God, you can see that we have declared the winners of this primaries. By next year, the election itself will commence in full. The turnout was massive in the places we visited. There was no violence or fight in any way”.

Also speaking , Acting State Chairman of the party, Steve Oruruo, said the exercise marked the ” final collation of the PDP primaries which emanated from different wards via direct primaries”.

He said: ” It was a glamorous outing that marked the end of elections in terms of primaries. This is the quality of PDP that was presented without rancour and with a sense of equity and fairness.

Leadership recruitment process should determine the coloration of quality leadership. So the warped value and poor leadership threat that we have witnessed over the years are just mere products of bad primaries of parties. Today we have presented a primary devoid of rancour, quarrel and skirmishes”, Oruruo said

Asked about other factions of the party that have produced governorship candidates in the state, he said: “Enugu has never had any crisis in the PDP. The leadership of this party exists courtesy of the court secured judgement that has never been vacated in the High Court.

” Beyond this, the Supreme Court nailed it in the final judgement and clearly made it very visible that it is the BOT led my former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara that controls the PDP and that leadership has since appointed leaders at the national level to man positions in the PDP and they are in charge of the processes today.

” So any other thing violates the law and is tantamount to nullity before the law. So any other party acting contrary to the stipulation of the Supreme Court is acting null and void and of no effect”, he said

Oruruo commended the true spirit of unity and peace demonstrated by party members all through the exercise, stressing that PDP remained the only party that had worked for the betterment of the country.