2023 Political Strategy: Dr Iyorchia Ayu emerges as PDP's consensus national chairmanship candidate

By Charles Segun Adegbite

Former President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Iyorcha Ayu has emerged as the consensus candidate for the post of National Chairman of the Peoples'Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of its October 31 national convention.

Ayu who was adopted as the North Central candidate yesterday, emerged as the party's consensus candidate today following several hours of continuous meetings by PDP stakeholders of Northern extraction in Abuja.

This is part of the party's political game plans to properly prepare for the 2023 election, with the aim of winning.

Former Commissioner for Community Development and Cooperatives in Ogun State during Governor Gbenga Daniel's administration, Prince Lekan Tejuoso has described this as a good development.

 "As long as the party leaders have come together to say this is what we want, it's a good development," he said in an interview with Successful People Magazine.

Ayu, who was Nigeria's No.3 citizen, as the President of the Senate between 1992 and 1993 in the aborted Third Republic, was appointed the Minister of Education (1993-98) by the then Head of State, Late Gen Sanni Abacha; later appointed Minister of Industry, thereafter the Minister of Internal Affairs and lastly the Minister of Environment during President Olusegun Obasanjo's tenure.