The former President of the Senate, David Mark, has been appointed the Chairman of the Presidential Screening Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The nine-member committee was announced in a communique signed by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Umar Bature, on Monday.
According to the statement, the PDP presidential screening will hold on Friday, April 29th at the Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja.
The David Mark-led committee is expected to screen at least 17 presidential aspirants who had purchased and submitted the forms before the deadline.
The committee members are, former governor of Rivers State, Celestine Omehia; senior lawyer Mike Ahamba; a former Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko; Edward Ashiekaa, a legal practitioner and a women advocate, Hilda Makonto.
Others are former presidential aide Akilu Indabawa, Esther Uduehi and Hassana Dikko.
The PDP has also constituted the presidential screening appeal panel. The panel is headed by the National Chairman, Iyorcha Ayu.
The 25-member committee is made up of the National Working Committee of the party and six members of the Board of Trustees (drawn from the six geopolitical zones).
