The Governor of Adamawa State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s (PDP) Convention Planning Committee, Ahmadu Fintiri<\/strong>, has declared that the party will proceed to Ibadan for its national elective convention scheduled to hold this weekend.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Fintiri spoke with journalists on Thursday night after a high-level stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n The strategic meeting, held at the Bauchi State Governor\u2019s Lodge in Asokoro, brought together prominent party figures, including Oyo State Governor and convention host, Seyi Makinde; PDP acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum; former Senate President, Bukola Saraki; National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba; and former Minister of Special Duties, Tanimu Turaki, among others.<\/p>\n Speaking after the closed-door session, Fintiri expressed excitement over the decisions reached, insisting that nothing would stop the convention from taking place as planned.<\/p>\n He stated, \u201cWe\u2019ve just come out of our critical stakeholders\u2019 meeting where a lot of elaborate decisions were taken.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI want to tell you here that we are going to Ibadan for our convention, and the convention is sacrosanct.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The declaration comes amid conflicting court orders and internal tensions over the legitimacy of the convention.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> had earlier reported that delegates and party leaders have continued to arrive in Ibadan, Oyo State, ahead of Saturday\u2019s exercise.<\/p>\n The National Vice Chairman (South-West) of the PDP, Kamorudeen Ajisafe, told Punch on Thursday that the party had \u201csecured the attendance of delegates from at least two-thirds of the 36 states,\u201d meeting the constitutional threshold for a valid convention.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAs of Wednesday afternoon, delegates had already begun arriving. People have started arriving, delegates, stakeholders, state chairmen. We have secured two-thirds of the attendance of states, apart from one or two that we are doubting. Even if you don\u2019t have all 36 states, you are still good to go with two-thirds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor of Adamawa State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s (PDP) Convention Planning Committee, Ahmadu Fintiri, has declared that the party will proceed to Ibadan for its national elective convention scheduled to hold this weekend. Abia Radio News reports that Fintiri spoke with journalists on Thursday night after a high-level stakeholders\u2019 meeting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}