The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum says the internal crisis rocking the PDP has been resolved.
The Forum’s Chairman and Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, made this known in an interview with newsmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, after the Forum’s meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
Mohammed said the party’s stakeholders had agreed that all the suspensions within the National Working Committee (NWC) be set aside and the status quo maintained.
He said the forum, alongside the National Assembly caucus and the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), had met and reaffirmed that “there is no faction in PDP”.
The governor stated: “All the suspensions you heard about have been resolved by the governors; the NWC, the caucus of the National Assembly, and the BoT.
“There is no faction; everything has reverted to the status quo under the acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, pending the time the governors and other organs of the party will sit down and resolve all the issues.
“There is no party that does not have problems. Some of them are legal, and we do not want to preempt the outcome of the legal procedures.
“So, whatever speculations and perceptions that might have gone out are wrong.
“Both parties have agreed that in the interest of the party and Nigeria, we should return to the status quo before the suspension and counter-suspension.
“These suspensions have been lifted; there are no more suspensions. That is the resolution of the PDP-GF.”
Mohammed further enjoined PDP members to make sacrifices and come together, saying: “Yes, we may have ill feelings here and there but we should bury them. Our personal feelings should not be allowed to create perceptions that seem to divide us.”
Asked if the October 24 NWC meeting of the party would still hold, Mohammed said the governors, BoT, and NWC would discuss it.
Also speaking with newsmen at the airport, the acting National Chairman of the PDP, Umar Damagum, said there was no crisis in the party.
Damagum said some people only wanted to take advantage of the situation.
“As far as I’m concerned, the governors are our leaders and critical organs of this party, and when they speak, we must look at it holistically and also abide by it.”
Two factions of the PDP NWC had, last Friday, emerged within the party, with each faction suspending key officers of the NWC.
The Damagum-led faction of the NWC suspended the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, for alleged disloyalty.
The faction also appointed their deputies, Manga and Osuoha, as acting National Publicity Secretary and Acting National Legal Adviser, respectively.
Another NWC faction, in a statement issued by Ologunagba, also announced the suspension of Damagum and the National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, for alleged anti-party activities.
The faction equally announced Yayari Mohammed as the new acting national chairman of the party.
