 Benway State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party PDP has endorsed the Speaker of the State Assembly Honourable Titus Chiopin, Uba, as the consensus candidate for the party's governorship ticket. At an expanded meeting of the party's caucus for the team-speaking area, stakeholder blocks of the party endorsed Uba as the preferred candidate from the Vandekia L local government area, where the same caucus had earlier zoned the governorship ticket to stakeholder blocks that conveyed endorsement of the State Assembly's Speaker included the Vandekia PDP Elders Forum, G14 Group of Elders, Benway State House of Assembly Teeve PDP caucus, local government council chairman and PDP PDP and Benway PDP 2023 governorship aspirants forum members from the Teeve speaking area.