Fintiri in Abuja, begins work as PDP Convention Committee Chair

The Chairman of the National Convention Planning Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rt Hon Ahmadu Fintiri, has assumed work.

Finitiri, who is also the Adamawa State Governor, assumed his new office at the PDP headquarters in Abuja on Saturday with a pledge to ensure a smooth convention for the party.

Fintiri’s Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, said in a statement that Fintiri had hit the ground running towards ensuring a flawless convention for the main opposition party.

He assumed at the PDP Legacy House Abuja, which is to serve as the secretariat of the Convention Committee, Wonosikou stated.

He said the 2021 Convention Organising Committee Chairman expressed satisfaction with the state of facilities at the Legacy House and reiterated the determination of his committee to deliver a process that will produce an acceptable National Working Committee to lead the party to victory in 2023.

The Convention Committee, which has Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri as deputy chairman, was inaugurated on Friday.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP had earlier, on September 9, 2021, announced Fintiri as the party’s convention planning committee chairman, with Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde as Secretary.