The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) has directed the North Central Zonal Caucus of the occasion to submit a nomination for the place of Nationwide Chairman for approval by the Nationwide Govt Committee (NEC).
In a communiqué issued after its emergency assembly in Abuja, the BoT requested the Appearing Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagum, to revert to his place as Deputy Nationwide Chairman of the PDP to pave the way in which for the emergence of a substantive chairman from the North Central zone.
The communiqué, learn by the chairman of the PDP’s BoT, Senator Adolphus Wabara, acknowledged: “The BoT calls on the leaders of the North Central Zone to instantly convene a gathering of North Central stakeholders with a view to nominating a substitute for former Nationwide Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
“The BoT calls for that the NWC ought to present management, honour its phrase, and convene the NEC assembly as scheduled in February 2025. That is vital for resolving urgent points and charting a transparent path ahead for the occasion. Any additional postponement will exacerbate present challenges and should spell doom for our occasion.”
In the meantime, a former Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the occasion, Kola Ologbondiyan, has recommended the BoT for searching for the speedy nomination of an individual from the North Central Zone to fill the place of the occasion’s Nationwide Chairman.
He described the choice as “well timed, patriotic, and commendable.”
“The choice reached on the assembly of the BoT mandating the North Central geo-political zone of the occasion to appoint a substitute for Senator Iyorchia Ayu is well timed, patriotic, and commendable.
“The choice is in consonance with the demand of the North Central Zone, which has constantly agitated that the Appearing Nationwide Chairman, Ambassador Umar Ilyasu Damagum, reverts to his elected place as Deputy Nationwide Chairman and permits the North Central to provide a successor.
“This daring and brave resolution of the BoT have to be recommended by the rank and file of the occasion,” Ologbondiyan stated.
