NWC insists on Damagum, worries over PDP’s future

Some elected national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed concern over the dwindling image and fortunes of the party.

They asked leaders sabotaging the growth of the party to resign if they were no longer comfortable with the party.

The elected deputies in the National Working Committee (NWC) also insisted on having Umar Damagum as the party’s acting national chairman of the party till December 2025.

Expressing concern over some actions of party members, who, under the guise of ‘due process advocates’, act on behalf of self-serving leaders, lurking behind the scenes mischievously and causing misunderstanding in the party.

Addressing journalists on behalf of the deputies, the Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, said: “This is no longer the time for blame game, as all have sinned. From the Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, who endorsed an opposition governor, to candidates who negotiated and supported other parties’ candidates with promises to get their return support, to NWC members and leaders who lost their polling units. We must all come down from our high horses, forget pride for now and join the party as led by Damagum to reposition this party back to winning ways.”

He warned that court distractions and media demarketing of the PDP must stop forthwith.

Osadolor: “You do not need to like the officers, but the party is more important. If you want to resign and be a proper opposition, do not be here and be abusing the party. The case of the acting national chairman is settled till December 2025, and on that of the National Secretary, we wait on the courts. Let us learn to love and support PDP first and always.

“We, the deputies, are committed to working with all stakeholders to ensure that PDP regains her pride of place and finds herself back in Aso Rock to and for the benefit of Nigeria and Nigerians.”

He also noted that the party was not only dealing with the case of the All Progressives Congress (APC), adding: “In the case of the PDP, it is not only the tyranny of the APC-led Federal Government against the party and Nigerians that we are dealing with. We are dealing with the disillusionment of members across the country and beyond, for reasons bordering on distrust, insincerity, lack of firm enforcement of agreements, self-serving interests and unnecessary eye service that is laced with smooth tongues.”

The deputies lamented the hardship, insecurity and poverty facing Nigerians, cautioning members to note that “the task ahead is to prepare for the next elections and not the present bickering, which is distracting attention and misdirecting energies that could have been put to better use.”