Chieftains of the primary opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday hinted that the deliberate Nationwide Government Committee of the social gathering scheduled for Thursday to resolve the management disaster of the social gathering would not maintain.
The governors elected on the platform of the social gathering had initially slated Thursday, March 13, for assembly of the Nationwide Government Committee (NEC) however from all indications, the social gathering must wait until Might for the assembly to happen.
The primary PDP Governors Discussion board (PDPGF) assembly in 2025 was held on the Authorities Home in Asaba on the finish of which a seven-point decision was reached.
Led by their Chairman and Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, the governors had resolved at their assembly which came about late January in Asaba, Delta State, to carry the assembly subsequent Thursday.
The PDP has been enmeshed in a collection of disaster because it misplaced energy to the ruling All Progressives Congress (PDP) in 2015 with the newest being the continued keep of the Ambassador Umar Damagum who has been appearing as nationwide chairman after the exit of the substantive holder, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, in 2023.
Ayu was suspended by the Ward Government of the social gathering in Igyorov Ward of Gboko Native Authorities Space, LGA, of Benue State.
Although he initially instituted a go well with difficult his suspension, he subsequently needed to withdraw the case and later resigned his place, paving the best way for the emergence of Damagum on appearing capability.
Whereas Ayu hails from North Central, Damagum who was the social gathering’s deputy nationwide chairman (North) till he stepped in on appearing capability, hails from North East.
The PDP has nevertheless been unable to make Damagum to provide approach for the emergence of one other member from the North Central to switch Ayu as substantive chairman.
A collection of interventions from totally different organs of the social gathering had completed little or nothing to rectify the state of affairs with Damagum staying put regardless of the actual fact he’s working on appearing capability and that the workplace had been zoned to North Central.
Apart the difficulty of the continued keep of Damagum, the PDP has additionally been enmeshed in disaster over the legality or in any other case of the continued keep of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as nationwide secretary of the social gathering regardless of court docket ruling affirming Sunday Ude-Okoye.
The Nationwide Working Committee of the social gathering needed to affirm Ude-Okoye because the social gathering’s nationwide secretary.
The NWC said that its choice was in accordance with the Courtroom of Appeal’s judgment on the matter.
Chieftains of the social gathering in separate telephones interviews on Friday informed Saturday Telegraph that the social gathering has been engaged on discover a lasting answer to the disaster.
Those that spoke our correspondent on the difficulty embrace the embattled Nationwide Secretary, Anyanwu, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Mr. Debo Olugunagba, a former spokesman of the social gathering, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan.
When contacted, Anyanwu dismissed the suggestion that the social gathering was shifting in direction of a nationwide conference however confirmed that the leaders of the social gathering are engaged on holding its NEC assembly in Might.
“We’re not going to have our nationwide conference for now however what we’re going to have is a NEC assembly and I do know that the assembly shall be held in Might,” Anyanwu stated.
On his half, Ologbodiyan informed our correspondent that the one individual that holds the keys to the decision of the social gathering stays the appearing nationwide chairman by giving approach for an additional member from the North Central zone.
“I’m additionally conscious that there are some strikes or plans to have a fast (nationwide) conference the place a successor (to Ayu) could be elected in order that by December, a brand new nationwide working committee would resume. When that’s completed, the matter would have been resolved,” Ologbodiyan stated.
When contacted, Ologunagba who neither confirmed nor denied the story, added that info regarding such could be correctly communicated to the general public.
“Did you get your info from the official quarters of the social gathering? The PDP has a approach of speaking its plans to the folks. There’s a course of for doing that, it’s a giant challenge and you recognize that we have now a means of speaking such,” he stated.
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