Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP0 in the north have endorsed former minister of special duties and intergovernmental affairs, Kabiru Turaki, as the consensus candidate for the party’s national chairmanship position.
The northern PDP stakeholders endorsed Turaki at a meeting held in Abuja on Wednesday.
Prominent northern PDP leaders at the meeting included Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi; Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau; Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa; Dauda Lawal of Zamfara; and Umar Damagum, PDP national chairman.
The PDP national convention to elect new national working committee (NWC) leaders is billed for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
There have been attempts to stall the PDP convention.
Austine Nwachukwu, PDP chairman in Imo state; Amah Abraham Nnanna, Abia state chairman; and Turnah George, south-south secretary of the party, had filed a suit at the federal high court marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025, seeking to stop the planned national convention.
The plaintiffs, believed to be allies of Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), are challenging the legality of the planned national convention and seeking an order to restrain the party from proceeding with it.
The court has fixed October 31 to hear the suit.
In August, the PDP national executive committee (NEC) zoned its presidential ticket to the south.
By party tradition, the national chairman is expected to come from the north.
