The North Central Zonal Working and Govt Committee of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, has raised alarm over what it described as an unfolding ‘political coup’ throughout the get together.
The zonal committee raised this issues throughout an emergency assembly of leaders held in Abuja on Tuesday, to evaluate the rising pressure triggered by the October 31 judgment of Justice Omotosho of the Federal Excessive Court docket, a ruling that has reignited factional battles inside the primary opposition get together.
The group warned that some determined parts have been plotting to hijack its management by way of unconstitutional means.
The committee reaffirmed its loyalty to the embattled Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagum, insisting that latest strikes to take away him have been unlawful, reckless, and able to plunging the PDP deeper into disaster.
Studying the communiqué from the assembly, Secretary of the PDP North Central Zone, Francis Orogu, mentioned the zone stood firmly towards what it known as a deliberate try and subvert the get together’s structure and undermine its inside democracy.
The zonal committee condemned in sturdy phrases the purported removing of Damagum by 4 members of the Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, and the alleged appointment of Alhaji Abdulrahman Mohammed as Appearing Nationwide Chairman, describing the event as ‘reckless, unconstitutional, and insulting.’
“We the members of the Peoples Democratic Occasion North Central Zone hereby distance and dissociate ourselves from the purported impeachment or removing of the Nationwide Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, by a mere 4 Nationwide Working Committee members and the so-called alternative of the identical with Hon. Abdulrahman Mohammed,” the communiqué declared.
