Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kola Ologbondiyan, warns that the party’s Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Ilyasu Damagum, may cause irreversible damage to the PDP, SAVANNAH NEWSNOW REPORTS.
Ologbodiyan stressed that the acting Chairman Damagum will kill PDP unless a substantive National Chairman from the North Central is elected at the upcoming National Executive Committee meeting on November 28, as mandated by the party’s Constitution.
He expressed this concern during a meeting with the G12-Renaissance Group of the PDP in Abuja on Sunday, highlighting the party’s recent losses in off-season elections as evidence of Damagum’s poor performance.
Ologbodiyan emphasized the urgent need for a substantive National Chairman to prevent further losses in upcoming elections in Anambra, Ekiti, and Osun, following the party’s defeat in the Ondo State Governorship election. Ologbondiyan criticized Damagum for overseeing the party’s decline.
“Amb. Damagun has the least of interest in working for the suçcess of the party in any election,” he further noted.
Recalling the allegation against Damagum in the public space in which he was alleged to have met with President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in London, Ologbondiyan challenged the embattled Acting National Chairman to speak up.
“How can the head of the leading opposition party be accused of nicodemusly meeting with the President of the ruling government, and he would have no response to provide?”
Ologbondiyan urged the party leaders to rescue the PDP from the stranglehold of Amb. Damagum and his backers, if the party must be revitalised to perform optimally as opposition political party.
