Plateau PDP Wike, Makinde Factions Declare 2 Governorship Candidates
Two factions of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State have produced two different governorship candidates for the 2027 general elections.
The faction under the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, and a separate group loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde-Tanimu Turaki, conducted their primaries during the week and nominated two different candidates for the upcoming elections.
The Wike group, at its primary on Tuesday, nominated businessman and philanthropist, Kefas Ropshik, alias “Kefiano,” as its candidate.
In the parallel exercise, the Turaki faction conducted its own primary and nominated a retired Permanent Secretary and former gubernatorial aspirant, Sunday Garba Biggs as its candidate.
While announcing Biggs as the authentic flag bearer of the PDP, the Turaki faction’s Publicity Secretary in the state, Felix Choji, said he was the only recognised aspirant and had passed the screening exercise conducted by the party’s committee in Abuja.
According to Choji, the screening outcome had automatically qualified Biggs as the PDP candidate in the state pending a formal affirmation scheduled for later this week.
“He is the only aspirant who submitted the expression-of-interest form. The party has cleared him and will formally affirm him as our gubernatorial candidate,” Choji said.
However, the Wike-backed faction had earlier issued a statement that Ropshik was the only candidate recognised and accepted by the party and any other candidate produced by the opposing faction was not acceptable.
