{"id":4352,"date":"2017-08-12T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2017-08-12T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T12:08:33","slug":"pdp-convention-bubbles-makarfi-to-get-4-months-tenure-elongation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"PDP Convention bubbles, Makarfi to get 4 months tenure elongation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4354\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDP-Convention-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Party stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) began streaming into the Eagle Square, venue of its Non-elective Special National Convention as early as 9:00 a.m.<br \/>\nPrimarily, they are arriving to endorse the recommendation of the Governor Arthur Okowa-led convention committee, as done by the National Executive Committee yesterday night.<br \/>\nThe 75th Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), \u00a0National Executive Committee (NEC) closed the Friday at the National Secretariat with a resolution to extend the tenure of Senator Ahmed Makarfi National Caretaker Committee by four months.<br \/>\nWithin the period, the committee is to hold elections to elect National Working Committee (NWC) members at a national convention..<br \/>\nThe fate of many States&#8217; parallel executive committees will be decided this Saturday.<br \/>\nThey came aboard as a result of the crisis foisted by the disagreement between Makarfi and the sacked Senator Ali Modu Sheriff leadership.<br \/>\nSheriff&#8217;s NWC, installed by a Port Harcourt Court of Appeal, was sacked by a Supreme Court judgement.<br \/>\nThose in attendance at the NEC meeting were Governor of Ekiti state and Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, Governors\u00a0of Taraba state, Darius Ishaku; Gombe state, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwanbo; and Rivers state, Chief Nyesom Wike,<br \/>\nTwo former Senate Presidents, David Mark and Anyim Pius Anyim were also in attendance, as well as\u00a0former Governor of Akwa Ibom state and Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) began streaming into the Eagle Square, venue of its Non-elective Special National Convention as early as 9:00 a.m. Primarily, they are arriving to endorse the recommendation of the Governor Arthur Okowa-led convention committee, as done by the National Executive Committee yesterday night. The 75th Peoples Democratic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}