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PDP Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagum
Sixty members of the Home of Representatives elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Celebration, on Monday, referred to as on the celebration’s performing Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagum, to resign.
The 60 lawmakers led by the PDP member representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency, Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, demanded the resignation of Damagum, accusing him, amongst others, of being in mattress with the ruling All Progressives Congress.
That is simply because the opposition lawmakers accused Damagum of plotting to make use of the Federal Excessive Court docket to legalise the extension of the tenure of Rivers State Native Authorities Areas Chairmen,
In the meantime, Minority Chief of the Home and a recognized political affiliate of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Mr Kingsley Chinda, was copiously absent at Monday’s briefing.
“We demand the speedy resignation of Damagun as Performing Nationwide Chairman of PDP for anti-party actions and permit the North Central to provide the Performing Chairman as clearly said within the PDP Structure or watch us rethink our membership of the celebration within the months forward if the correct factor shouldn’t be finished.
“We additionally name for the elimination of Damagun by the celebration’s Nationwide Government Committee with additional sanctions in opposition to him for his anti-party actions.
“It’s our name on Damagum to right away resign in order that the celebration can midwife a course of and hand over to somebody from North Central in step with the provisions of our nice celebration. Additionally it is our name to the leaders of our celebration from the North Central, Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, Senators David Mark, Bukola Saraki, Abba Moro, Gabriel Suswam and Babangida Aliyu, to stand up now and save the soul of the half,” Ugochinyere stated on behalf of his colleagues.
He famous allegations of “Doctoring of caretaker committee members lists in Rivers State and at the least 10 different states. This story is sort of unlucky, and I can verify to you all that it isn’t a hearsay however a truth. We’ve obtained very credible intelligence on the goings in our celebration’s Wadata Home nationwide secretariat, and it doesn’t sound correct in any respect. We at the moment have a nationwide management within the PDP that’s in mattress with the APC and dealing extraordinarily laborious handy over the celebration to the APC.
“Following the elimination of Iyorchia Ayu as nationwide chairman of our celebration and assumption of workplace by Damagun, who was elected as Deputy Nationwide Chairman to behave in his stead, the celebration has solely recognized misfortune and has abdicated its duty because the main opposition celebration within the nation. That position which Nigerians would have liked the PDP to play as an establishment it really is has been abdicated for a plate of porridge,” he added.
Describing Damagum as unfit to steer the celebration to battle, the lawmakers stated the Yobe politician “Was solely constitutionally allowed to step in, maintain the fort and midwife the method via which the North Central zone the place the chairmanship of the celebration was initially zone to current one other one who would full the slot of the North Central,” including nonetheless that “Not solely did Damagun maintain tight unto the seat for properly over a 12 months now, he has abdicated each duty of the workplace of the chairman of PDP and may be very snug serving APC pursuits.
“There had been an settlement of a broad spectrum of the celebration management when it grew to become clear that Damagum was not concerned with conducting elections however in appointing caretaker committees in at the least 19 states the place the tenures of the state and native authorities leaders have been expiring to increase the tenures of those officers by three months. This choice, which was made to cowl each state, was the knowledge that restrained Damagum from saying a wholesale checklist of a majority of caretaker committees populated by APC brokers masquerading as PDP members.
“Nevertheless, regardless of that call to retain all people, Mr Damagun went forward and acquired an inventory of APC brokers and introduced them as members and leaders of the PDP native authorities caretaker committees wholesomely in Rivers State and partially in at the least 10 different states. It is a direct try and kill the PDP and guarantee it goes into extinction.”
The lawmakers additionally accused Damagum of failing to retain a lot of the states within the South-East, noting that at present, the celebration is simply in command of Enugu State, “Which accurately snatched from the jaw of a lion.”
He added that the celebration “Misplaced Benue, Abia and Sokoto states. The PDP management stored mute whereas the PDP state and federal lawmakers misplaced their seats on the tribunal and Court docket of Attraction on the grounds that have been clearly untenable, which have since been upturned by the Supreme Court docket. If the celebration had spoken up and raised the required alarm, all our colleagues in Imo and Plateau States notably would have been with us within the meeting at present.”
Addressing the Nationwide Chairman frontally, Ugochinyere stated, “You’ve an opportunity to resign instantly, go away, or be embarrassed out of the celebration. A minimum of 60 of us within the PDP within the Nationwide Meeting will extreme all relationships with the Damagun management till he leaves workplace. On the scheduled Nationwide Government Committee assembly, if Damagun by any maneuvering nonetheless conjectured, stays in workplace with the assistance of his APC buddies on the finish of the day; the celebration is now heading to the ultimate slaughter shed.”
