9 Days to PDP NEC Meeting: Fresh Crisis Hits Party as 60 Reps Demand Damagum’s Sack

With just nine days to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, about 60 members of the National Assembly elected on the party’s platform, have called for  the removal of its acting national chairman,  Umar Illiya Damagum.

Led by Hon. Imo Ikenga Ugochinyere, the lawmakers claimed Damagun was involved in anti-party activities.

The party’s NEC is scheduled to hold April 18, while that of the Board of Trustees (BoT) follows in quick succession.

Addressing journalists Monday in Abuja on the state of the party,   the group said it would also not hesitate to take legal options if the party’s NEC failed to heed their demand for Damagun’s removal, or alternatively, resign their membership of the PDP.

Meanwhile, the minority leaders of the House of Representatives drawn from all opposition parties have disowned 60 lawmakers who called for the resignation of the PDP’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, for alleged anti-party activities.

Reacting via a statement issued and co-signed today by the Minority Leader and leader of the caucus, Kingsley Chinda; Deputy Minority Leader, Ali Madaki; Minority Whip, Ali Isah and Deputy Minority Whip, George Ozodinobi, the lawmakers described the Ikenga Ugochinyere-led coalition as a body unknown to the parliament