PDP Convention: Northern leaders set up screening committee

Northern Leaders Forum of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has constituted a 16-member committee to organise a selection process for aspirants from the northern states vying for national offices in the party. Convener of the forum, Prof. Jerry Gana, made this known to newsmen at the end of a meeting of the group on Saturday in Abuja. 

The meeting, according to him, was in preparation for the party’s national convention scheduled for Aug. 17 in Port-Harcourt, Rivers. Gana said the committee members were drawn from all the northern states and that Sen. Ibrahim Mantu was the chairman. “The mandate given to the committee is to screen all the aspirants from the northern states and ensure that credible persons are presented at the convention.