Former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has attacked the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Umar Damagun saying he rendered the party comatose through his actions.
The former governor spoke to journalists in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital while responding to the latest crisis in the PDP, following the suspension and counter-suspension by members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.
Thus following last week’s judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja, stopping the PDP National Convention earlier slated for this month, some leaders of the party led by its National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu had suspended Damagun and other NWC members blaming them for the problems facing the party.
In their reaction , Damagun and others affected by the suspension also suspended Anyanwu and other NWC members in his faction.
According to Fayose, Damagun should be blamed for the crisis rocking the party as a result of his failure to follow the party’s constitution, saying the suspended National Chairman and his cohorts brought the party’s to its knee.
The former governor noted that Damagun will not come back to his position as the party now has a new Chaimrnan, Muhammed Abdulrahman who was appointed last week by the Anyanwu faction following the suspension of Damagun.
“We are happy we have a new acting national chairman, Alhaji Muhammed Abdurrahman, who emerged on Saturday as a result of the confidence reposed in him after the suspension of the former chairman. You will recall this is the same way Iyorchia Ayu crisis started and this former chairman, Damagum, will go the way of Ayu, I can assure you,” Fayose said.
On whether the party can come out of the present schisms, Fayose added that, “Let me just say that PDP is in comatose, under life support. Not until somebody is responding to medication, you might say there is hope. In the instance case, PDP is in comatose, without hope of survival.”
“His last service to the party was before the suspension. He is not going to return to that office as chairman. In the first place, he was not supposed to be the chairman; he only represented an interregnum, but manipulated the process to become the chairman and caused so much confusion.
“He caused so much confusion everywhere and you realize that the party could not even hold the NEC for a long time. It shows that the man, Damagum has been incompetent, he does not have what it takes and he stole that office and is acting in that capacity.
“Therefore, we want to appeal to the new acting chairman, assuring him of the cooperation of all party members, asking him to reposition the party, asking him to make all necessary corrections in state chapters before any convention.
“I want to tell you that Abdulrahman needs to come of age and assist the dwindling image of the party and conduct congresses as may be necessary in all state chapters that need to be done as directed by the court of law.
“They are not obeying their own constitution. They are not following due process. Like in the Southwest, somebody wants to control all the state chapters without allowing the congresses to hold and you are saying you are looking for peace; you will never find peace.”
The magazine reports that the former governor belongs to a group in the PDP led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike blamed by not a few pundit for being responsible for the protracted crisis rocking the major opposition party.
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