A factional executive committee has emerged in the Kogi State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after a congress was health at the party’s state secretariat on Wednesday.
The emergence of the new executive committee has created crisis within the party with a former All Progressives Congress (APC) zonal leader, Ahmed Attah, elected as the new chairman and Idris Sofada as state secretary.
Politics Nigeria gathered that the 12-member executive committee was election during the congress by 3,890 delegates from the state’s 21 local government areas of Kogi state.
The exercise was duly monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Speaking after the congress, Attah promised to ensure justice, fairness and repositioning the party for expected victory in coming elections.
He said “This has positioned SDP as the party to beat in the 2028 governorship election.”
Surprisingly a parallel faction led by Moses Oricha described the congress organised by the party and illegal, null and void.
With Oricha’s executive congress to expire by April 2026, he accused the organisers of the congress of violating due process and disregarding a matter already pending in the court.
“It has come to my notice that some individuals claiming to be SDP members organised a state congress yesterday. This is laughable and criminal. They are faceless and sponsored by paymasters to cause chaos in our party,” Oricha said.
The party’s leader further called on security agencies and its operatives to disregard the outcome of the congress as it was aimed at destabilising the party.
