Atiku’s Aide Shaibu: PDP Governors Have Sacrificed Their Integrity To One Individual
By Trek Africa Newspaper
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened late last week with suspension and counter-suspensions among members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.
The NWC led by Umar Damagum had suspended the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade.
A few hours after the announcement, the Ajibade faction suspended Damagum and the national secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, deepening the crisis that has been rocking the party since the 2023 general elections.
The suspension and counter-suspension led to the emergence of a factional PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Yayari Mohammed.
Mohammed emerged amid a ruling of the Abuja Federal High Court restraining the National Executive Committee (NEC) and PDP’s Board of Trustees (BoT) from removing Damagum as the party’s Acting National Chairman.
The court also ordered that no other person must be recognized as PDP national chairman other than Damagum until the national convention of the party scheduled for December next year.
However, the PDP governors’ have now stepped in, and asked that the status quo be maintained.
