PDP crisis deepens as North Central caucus insists on replacing Damagum

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has resurfaced, following the insistence of the North Central caucus on urgently replacing the acting national chairman, Umar Damagum.

Former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke on the position of the caucus on Sunday, stated that no other zone or individual can stop the North Central Zone from producing a successor to the former National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.

Ologbondiyan, speaking while receiving PDP youths from the North Central in Abuja, said the zone is set to name a successor to Ayu in line with the provisions of Section 47(6) of the PDP Constitution (2017 as Amended).

He said, “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, including Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa, and Borno, are in support of naming a successor from the North Central to replace Sen. Ayu, and the zone is already fine-tuning its processes to achieve that purpose.”

He urged PDP members to “ignore the antics of certain members of the party who have turned themselves into the Party’s Constitution and are churning out rules at their whims and caprices.”

“The grundnorm for the PDP is the PDP’s Constitution (2017 as Amended) and not the desires of any individual, irrespective of the position occupied by such an individual,” he said.

He encouraged party members to familiarize themselves with the provisions of the party’s Constitution to be well guided.

“The North Central will produce a successor to Senator Ayu, not any other zone. Any individuals or groups wishing to stop the implementation of Section 47(6) of the PDP Constitution (as amended) are not seeking the good of our party,” Ologbondiyan concluded.