Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Convention Committee, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has read a riot act to presidential aspirants on the platform of the party and their supporters that campaigns will not be allowed at the Eagles Square venue on Saturday.
Okowa made this remark on Monday at the party headquarters in Abuja while briefing the press on the level of preparedness for the convention.
The governor stated that those campaigning for future election were barred from displaying campaign posters or publicizing their intentions at the venue of the convention.
The chairman of the Convention committee also warned aspirants at the convention to stop all campaigns on Friday and keep their campaigners away from the convention venue
“I Want to urge aspirants to the various positions to please keep their campaigners away from the convention venue and we believe all campaigns would have stopped by Friday.
“I will not expect any aspirant, especially presidential aspirants to bring their campaign posters, campaigners, men or women to the venue because it will not be allowed. And we want to appeal to all of them campaigning to desist from doing that.
“For those who want to campaign for future election, possibly the presidential aspirants this convention is not the place to display campaign posters or to display their intentions. I believe there will be an appropriate convention for that. I want to urge them to cooperate with us as a committee.
The governor expressed confidence that between now and Friday his committee would have been able to achieve every other thing needed to deliver a credible convention.
“The venue of the convention is the eagle square. It has been secured and we have had alot of discussions concerning the need for accreditation, securing the venue and also the electoral process.
“We are very confident that a lot is being put in place and between now and friday we would have been able to achieve every other thing that we need to do to deliver a credible convention.
“We need to make this announcement to all our party members and well wishers that the convention is going to be for delegates and we are expecting a little less than 3000 delegate. And those delegates have been properly accredited by the accreditation committee.
“And for those our party members that are going to come are welcome to Abuja but they will not be allowed to come to the eagle square and this is because we want to be sure that we are in a position to deliver a credible elective convention.
“Movement will have to be somehow restricted to some important personalities who ordinarily will love to be around.
“We are trying to put all these processes in place so that we don’t overcrowd the venue.”
