Former AGF emerges Benue PDP consensus candidate for 2027 governorship race

Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN, has been picked arsenic the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) statement governorship campaigner for Benue State up of the 2027 wide elections.

The determination followed an intensive three-week consultation and governmental screening process involving enactment stakeholders, elders, and each 11 governorship aspirants nether the PDP level successful the state.

According to enactment sources, the workout brought unneurotic cardinal figures including erstwhile Governor, Samuel Ortom, Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Patrick Abba Moro, the State Working Committee led by Rt. Hon. Ezekiel Adaji, lawmakers, and influential enactment blocs specified arsenic the G-14 and G-9 elders’ groups.

At the extremity of the process, Aondoakaa reportedly emerged arsenic the statement choice, with each 10 different aspirants accepting the result successful what enactment leaders described arsenic a “unified and disciplined decision.”

Some of the aspirants, including Prof. Dennis Ityavyar and Rt. Hon. Dominic Ucha, were said to person accepted the process contempt expressing reservations connected zoning expectations, but pledged afloat enactment for the party’s direction.

Other notable aspirants and stakeholders, including Revd. Tor Uja, Prof. Sebastine Hon, SAN, Dr. Tersoo Loko, Engr. Tor Tiv Ato, and others, besides reportedly aligned with the statement statement and ...