PDP Appoints Acting Chairman to Replace Ayu, Former PDP Chairman
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has appointed Umar Damagum, to step in as the acting PDP chairman.
This is coming after the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Iyorchia Ayu has stepped aside as the chairman of the party.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, announced this at a press conference on Tuesday, at the party’s secretariat
Ayu was replaced by the Deputy National Chairman, (North) Umar Iliya Damagum. Damagum will assume office as the Acting National Chairman of the PDP, pending the determination of the case in court.
Meanwhile, a High Court in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, had restrained embattled Ayu from parading himself as chairman of the party pending the determination of the substantive suit which has been adjourned to April 17, 2023, for hearing.
A member of the PDP from Benue, Terhide Utaan, who is the plaintiff before Justice W. I Kpochi, obtained the order restraining Ayu from parading himself as national chairman of the party.
Addressing journalists in Makurdi after obtaining the court order, the plaintiff said following the suspension of Ayu by his Igyorov Ward Exco on Sunday, it is wrong for him to keep up with the office of the national chairman and further disunite the party.
Ayu was suspended late last week for anti-party activities in the wake of the party’s loss in the presidential election.
However, a statement released on Monday by his media aide Simon Imobo-Tswam, argued that only the ward lacked the powers to suspend him.
Furthermore, Ayu’s political rival in the PDP and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Monday, said he is delighted that Benue State ward exco passed a vote of no confidence in him.
“I am not from Benue State, but I am happy, and now that Benue State has done it, we would now come out and say we are in support of it,” he said
Before the new development, there had been intense calls for Ayu to step aside for a Southerner to take over as the Chairman of the party.
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