He said the government is working to eliminate bandits and terrorists across the country.
However, the event held at a private apartment in Abuja.
The group said the PDP faction, backed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesome Wike, lacked the authority to suspend members in the state.
Mr Ikenya scored 34,173 to defeat Dinshiya Usman, who polled 4,853.
Mr Pantami has been declared the PDP governorship candidate following a consensus arrangement.
He described the PDP as the only formidable opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.
The Lagos State chapter of the Allied Peoples Movement on Monday re-elected Bunmi Adeyemo and 16 others as members of the state executive committee.
“I certainly was told before I came into the party there would be an automatic ticket for me,” Mr Nwoko said. “Why would I just leave like that?”
Ex-tech minister Uche Nnaji, who resigned from President Bola Tinubu’s administration in 2025 after a humiliating certificate forgery scandal, has clinched the PDP’s governorship ticket.
Since Mr Tinubu assumed power in 2023 more Nigerians have been plunged into the pit of poverty.
