From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
A coalition of opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives has alleged that there is plot to retain Umar Damagum as acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) until the 2027 general elections.
The spokesman of the coalition, Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere, in statement, said that is the reason the PDP has continued to shift the meeting of its National Executive Committee ( NEC), where a replacement for Damagum is supposed to be chosen.
Ugochinyere stated some governors elected on the platform of the opposition party and some members of the PDP National Working Committee ( NWC) are allegedly behind the plot.
According to him, the major plot is allegedly to pave way for the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 by producing a weak presidential candidate.
The PDP has been divided in recent times over whether or not Damagum should continue to act as the National chairman of the party. While NWC has continued to postpone the meeting of the opposition NEC to choose appoint a substantive national chairman.
Ugochinyere, noted that while the country is facing hard times, the PDP, which is expected the lead the opposition has allegedly been hijacked.
According to him “today our nation is facing different challenges both economic, political. But there’s something that’s missing in all these problems and that’s a vibrant and responsive and responsible opposition.
” Today we have a political party People Democratic Party, PDP that’s supposed to lead the opposition, but what do you have but we have political charlatans hijacking the heartbeat of the opposition party. And turning it to an errand platform for the ruling party.
“Today I want to inform the whole Nigeria that they have perfected a plan to ensure that the NEC meeting to choose a chairman from North Central where the position is originally supposed to come from is not possible. They want Umar Damagum to continue to parade as the National Chairman and stay in office till 2027, so they can foist on us a weakling that will be presidential candidate.
” The ruling party will be laughing at them now that they want to sabotage their own party. First they said there was Sallah holiday and they shifted it, since last year they kept on shifting the NEC meeting.”
