Bayelsa Guber: PDP candidate, Douye Diri speaks on naming running mate
This is even as the deadline given by the Independent National Electoral Commission to parties to submit names of candidates for the November 16 governorship election in the state is expected to end in six days.
Diri spoke on Wednesday at an interactive session with journalists when he visited the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Yenagoa. The PDP flagbearer had refused to respond to a question by a reporter who asked him who he is considering as running mate.He said, “If you go to the INEC website, you will know who my running mate is.“And the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria empowers me to nominate a running mate.“And my party has the responsibility of forwarding that name to INEC and it is only when INEC has published that he becomes my running mate.
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