New PDP NWC will guarantee transparency, equity, fairness – Turaki

The Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Tanimu Turaki, has stated the get together below his management will guarantee transparency, equity and fairness, such that solely folks of integrity and credibility will make it to the poll.

Turaki made the assertion on Sunday night at a banquet and guide presentation in honour of a former Minister of Information and Culture, Jerry Gana, to mark his eightieth birthday.

PidomNigeria On-line had earlier reported that Turaki was elected Chairman of the PDP on the get together’s controversial Nationwide Conference held on 14 and 15 November, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Following his election, Turaki, in his acceptance speech, promised to reform the get together, restore inside democracy and finish impunity throughout the PDP.

In his handle, he was responding to feedback by former Governor of Niger State, Babangida Mu’azu, who stated Nigeria missed the chance of getting Jerry Gana as President.

He added that below his management, aspirants would solely want qualities of integrity and credibility, like Gana, to safe a spot on the poll.

“His Excellency, the Chief Servant stated Nigeria has misplaced a chance of getting a President Jerry Gana. And I need to reply by saying that the brand new PDP goes to make that potential.

“As a result of the brand new PDP is one that’s going to permit the folks to determine what they need, how they need it, and when they need it. The brand new PDP will guarantee that there’s transparency, there may be equity, there may be fairness, and there may be justice in no matter course of we do.

“In order that in case you have integrity like Prof Jerry Gana, in case you have credibility like Prof Jerry Gana, in case you have a model like Prof Jerry Gana, that’s all you want within the new PDP to make it to the poll paper,” he stated.

Turaki additional eulogised the celebrant as “a person of credibility” and “a politician’s politician,” noting that regardless of his lengthy years in public service, the previous minister by no means dirty his title, a top quality he stated was solely discovered within the PDP.

“Individuals who have spoken this evening have spoken concerning the charismatic Prof Jerry Gana, a person of credibility, a person of integrity, a politician’s politician. An icon. An enigma. An establishment.

“Any individual who had made success in teachers, made success in public life, made success in politics, made success in household life, made success in non-public life, made success in just about all the things that he ventured to do.

“And despite this, he maintained and saved his integrity. He had by no means dirty his title despite the a number of public workplaces that he had held. Folks like Jerry Gana are solely discovered within the PDP,” the Chairman said.

The biography of the celebrant, Jerry Gana: Stewardship in Integrity, was authored by Mark Simon, with the foreword written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.