PDP orders fresh state congress in Kogi

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ordered a fresh congress to elect new officers for the Kogi state chapter of the party.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made this known to the in Lokoja on Friday.

Ologbondiyan said that the decision to hold the congress was due to the fact that the tenure of the present state officers will come to an end on July 22. He, however, said that the congress will not hold at local government and ward levels of the party.

The PDP spokesman said that a date and guidelines for the governorship primaries of the party will be announced in due course, confirming that the fee for obtaining the governorship nomination form of the party has been increased from N5 million to N10 million.

Ologbondiyan urged all aspirants to guide against misconduct and utterances capable of negatively affecting the chances of the party in the Nov. 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states.