PDP primary election: Dickson convenes meeting of party’s elders

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has convened a crucial meeting of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Elders Council ahead of the party’s governorship primary election.

The Chairman of the Council, Air Vice-Marshal Larry Koinyan, in a statement at the weekend said that the meeting would hold on Tuesday at the Governor’s conference room, Government House, Yenagoa.

Koinyan said former President Goodluck Jonathan and prominent PDP elders were expected to attend the meeting.

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He further called on all the statutory members of the council inaugurated in line with constitutional provisions to attend the meeting.

He explained that the maiden meeting of the council would hold with the entire PDP State Executive Council led by its Chairman, Chief Moses Cleopas, in attendance.

Koinyan said that matters concerning the September 3 primaries of the party would be discussed at the meeting.