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A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed Alhaji Yayari Ahmed Mohammed as its new Acting National Chairman amid the ongoing conflict brewing in the party.
This decision comes after the faction had suspended the acting national chairman, Amb. Illiya Damagum.
The Eastern Updates reports that the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday restrained the National Executive Committee (NEC) and Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from removing Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of the party.
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However, regardless of the court injunction, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, announced Mohammed’s appointment in a statement on Friday.
The statement reads, “Following the suspension of His Excellency, Amb. Illiya Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the appointment of Alhaji Yayari Ahmed Mohammed as the Acting National Chairman.
“The appointment which takes immediate effect is pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017)
“The NWC calls on all Organs, leaders, critical stakeholder and members of our great Party to remain focused at this critical time especially as the NWC commences arrangements towards the holding of the Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting already scheduled for Thursday, 24th October, 2024”.
In other news, the Senate on Thursday in Abuja strongly condemned the recent local government elections which had been conducted in many states for chairmen and councillors describing them as sham and rape of democracy.
It consequently vowed to do the needful about the charade for survival of democracy in Nigeria through required constitution amendments.
Condemnation of local government elections by the Senate followed a motion sponsored by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Abba Moro (PDP, Benue South) on local government election conducted in Benue State last Saturday which he described as a sham.
Seconding the motion, Senator Emmanuel Udende (APC, Benue North East) said although he is a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, he can’t support what is wrong, adding: “This is not a party matter; there was no election in Benue state.”
Another APC senator from the state, Titus Zam (Benue, North West), strongly supported the motion by condemning the election in its entirety.