Nigeria, March 29 -- Nigeria's main opposition party, The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has appointed a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki as chairman of the party's ward congress electoral committee in Bayelsa State.

The committee is to conduct ward congress to elect three ad-hoc delegates that would later elect the governorship candidate of the party in the state.

In a statement on Tuesday by the National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, the PDP named Gabriel Onyewife as a secretary while Sunday Katung, Danjuma Danladi and Mammy Balami are to serve as members of the committee.

"The Congresses are scheduled for 28 and 29 March in each of the 105 Wards in Bayelsa State," Mr Bature said.

PREMIUM TIMES last week reported that th...