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Thirteen chairmanship aspirants of the People’s Democratic Party in Kogi State, have rejected the consensus candidate to lead the party in the state.
A committee comprising of former governors and party leaders had endorsed Mr Enemona Anyebe as the consensus candidate for the PDP chairmanship position in the state.
Kogi State's PDP Chairmanship aspirant, Aruwa Ismaila, at a press conference in Lokoja, said that the purported endorsement of Anyebe as the party’s consensus candidate for the office of the state chairman was blatantly misleading.
Ismaila said, “It has therefore become imperative to issue this rebuttal so that the unsuspecting public and particularly our PDP supporters and members are not misled, misguided and sold a dummy. We rejected outrightly, especially on the issue of the elders going outside their mandate to source for and nominate one Mr Anyebe from Olamaboro as consensus candidate at the scantly attended meeting of Kogi East critical stakeholders held at Lokoja on Monday, 29 April 2024, when the Elders Review Report on zoning was presented on their behalf.
“We the chairmanship aspirants spoke through our spokesperson Mr. Ismaila Aruwa, at the meeting and advocated for outright rejection of the Review report which even fell far short of the initial Zoning committee report led by Hon. Tom Zakari. Our position has not changed.
“The purported endorsement of Mr Enemona Anyebe the party consensus candidate is an affront to the Kogi State PDP leadership and a benign attempt to overreach their mandate and authority and such is hereby outrightly rejected.
