PDP crisis deepens as N’Central caucus insists on replacing Damagum 

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have deepened following the insistence of the North Central caucus of the party on producing and replacing the acting national chairman, Umar Damagum.

Former National Publicity Secretary of the opposition party, Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke on the matter yesterday, submitted that no other zone or individual could stop the North Central zone from producing a successor to the party’s erstwhile national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.

Ologbondiyan, who spoke while receiving PDP youths from the zone, reiterated that the region was set to name a successor to Ayu in line with the provisions of Section 47(6) of the PDP Constitution 2017 (as amended).

His words: “It is common knowledge that party members and stakeholders across the six geo-political zones of the country, particularly the States of the North East, that include Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa and Borno, are in support of naming a successor from the North Central to replace Senator Ayu, and the zone is already fine-tuning its processes to achieve that purpose.”