The Peoples Democratic Party, in a dramatic
move, has thrown open its doors for interested
members of the party to come forward and pick
its presidential nomination and expression of
interest forms.
This new direction was announced Monday by
PDP's National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh
in Abuja.
The party urged members of the party who are
interested in participating in the presidential
election to obtain the nomination and expression
of interest forms latest by the 6th of November,
2014.
In what looked like a u-turn on the adoption of
President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole
presidential aspirant, the ruling on Monday urged
all members interested to pick the form.
The party had insisted on not given out
nomination forms to any other member of the
party, insisting that it had already endorsed
President Jonathan as its sole aspirant.
The party turned down Dr. AbdulJelili Tafawa
Balewa, and Prof. Akasoba Duke Abiola who had
paid the required fees.
Metuh, however, said the National Working
Committee of the party has ruled that interested
members are now free to enter the race.
In a statement, Metuh added:
"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to inform all
aspirants to all positions for the 2015 general election that the deadline for the purchase and collection of all nomination forms has been extended to Thursday, November 6, 2014″.
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