“Damagum must step down” – Former PDP spokesman tells party leaders

Former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbodiyan, has insisted that the North Central region deserves to produce the next national chairman of the PDP.

According to Ologbodiyan, the continued stay of Amb. Umar Damagum, the Deputy Chairman North of the party as the acting chairman, is hurting the PDP.

Ologbondiyan also decried the continuous postponement of the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

Speaking to North Central youths in Abuja on Thursday, Ologbondiyan said that North Central chairmanship is the only pathway to fixing PDP.

He said: “Anything outside of this demand will end up an exercise in futility. Advertisement “Leaders must look at the bigger picture and address the truth wherever it is required.

“We must tell those who have undertaken to either kill the PDP or render it comatose that the party is not a one-man organisation. The founders named it the Peoples Democratic Party.

“It is, therefore, owned by the people of Nigeria and not any individual, no matter how well placed in the society.”

According to him, Damagum must not be encouraged to disrespect the soul of the party as embodied in the various organs of the PDP.

He said the postponements of NEC by the NWC is an aberration that shows a huge disrespect to the constitutional order of the party.

He therefore charged the leaders of the party not to allow the November 28 NEC to be wished away like the previously scheduled dates.

Ologbondiyan emphasised the need for the North Central not to relent in its rightful demand for the National Chairman of the PDP, stressing that doing otherwise would amount to brushing aside their rights in the PDP.

“It is trite wisdom that as long as Damagum is being encouraged to continue to sit on the position of North Central, the concept of fixing the PDP will be mere lip servicing that can cause the party more harm,” he said.