PDP Reschedules Governorship, Senatorial Primaries

The Peoples Democratic Party‘s National Working Committee on Wednesday night rescheduled its Governorship and Senatorial primary elections, among others.

NWC of the main opposition party also approved the update of the Party’s Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 general election.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Debo Ologunagba disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘2023: PDP updates timetable and schedule of activities.’

According to Ologunagba, the new schedule is as follows: “Local Government Area Congress to elect one National Delegate per LGA and one Person living with disability in the 774 Local Government Areas: Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

“State House of Assembly (State Constituency Congress): Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

“House of Representatives Primaries: Friday, May 20, 2022.

“Senatorial District Primaries: Saturday, May 21, 2022.

“Governorship Primaries: Monday, May 23, 2022.”

PDP in the statement called on all aspirants to various positions, critical stakeholders, members of the party, as well as relevant agencies of government to take note of the changes.

In a related development, PDP has upheld the disqualification of two Presidential aspirants under the party.

The decision was reached by the Iyorchia Ayu-led appeal committee on Wednesday.