Benue PDP meets in Makurdi, targets 2027 comeback

The Benue State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) connected Sunday held an expanded caucus gathering successful Makurdi wherever leaders and stakeholders deliberated connected strategies aimed astatine repositioning the enactment up of the 2027 elections.

Addressing the meeting, the person of the PDP successful the state, ex-Governor Samuel Ortom, briefed members connected the authorities of affairs wrong the enactment and cardinal preparations for the forthcoming elections.

Chief Ortom told the expanded caucus that the interior situation that had fragmented the enactment and led to litigations had been resolved pursuing the judgement of the Court of Appeal, noting that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and different applicable bodies had since accorded legitimacy to the Abduhraman Mohammed and Samuel Anyanwu-led caretaker committee.

He disclosed that the party’s e-registration workout would commence connected March 16, 2026, and past for a play of 2 weeks, aft which the party’s e-register would beryllium submitted to INEC.

Chief Ortom expressed optimism astir the readiness of the PDP to grounds immense occurrence successful adjacent year’s polls, saying that with the litigations present resolved, the PDP was good positioned to triumph the 2027 elections.

In his remarks, Senate Minority Leader, Dr Abba Moro, said the PDP was connected people to reclaim powerfulness successful Benue successful 2027, stating that the existent politician had failed to unrecorded up to his superior work of protecting the radical of the sta...