{"id":86248,"date":"2023-04-15T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment"},"modified":"2023-04-16T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:40:31","slug":"pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment","title":{"rendered":"PDP gives Makarfi new appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed Senator Ahmed Makarfi as the chairman of its Kogi governorship primary election committee.<\/p>\n<p>PDP National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the nomination of Makarfi and other members of the committee to conduct a primary election for selecting the candidate of the PDP for the 2023 Kogi governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primaries will hold on Sunday, April 16, in Lokoja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther members of the committee are Erelu Toyin Mark, Ikechukwu Nwosu, Deolu Harrisson, Usman Ibrahim, Chief Anthony Onwuka and Laureta Ogwuche who will serve as secretary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bature advised the committee members to exhibit exemplary conduct by adhering to the rules and regulations of their assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn carrying out this assignment, you are expected to be guided strictly by the PDP Constitution (2017 as amended), the Electoral Guidelines for Party Primary Elections and the 2022 Electoral Act,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed Senator Ahmed Makarfi as the chairman of its Kogi governorship primary election committee. PDP National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. \u201cThe National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the nomination of Makarfi and other members of the committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,6836,254,65],"class_list":["post-86248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-makarfi","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP gives Makarfi new appointment - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed Senator Ahmed Makarfi as the chairman of its Kogi governorship primary ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP gives Makarfi new appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed Senator Ahmed Makarfi as the chairman of its Kogi governorship primary ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-15T22:10:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-15T23:40:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681584031.19.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP gives Makarfi new appointment\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-15T22:10:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-15T23:40:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681584031.19.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Makarfi\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-gives-makarfi-new-appointment\",\"name\":\"PDP gives Makarfi new appointment - 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