PDP Group Wants NEC Meeting Within 1 Month

A group, Concerned PDP League (CPDPL) has warned the acting national chairman of the party, Ambassador Umar Damagum, to convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting within one month or face litigation.

A statement jointly signed by the national leader of the group, Daboikiabo Warmate and the general-secretary, Alhaji Tarsiu Muhammed, yesterday, said their decision was based on the failure of Damagum to summon NEC meetings in the past three quarters.

They said this is a brazen breach of section 31 subsection 4 of the 2017 PDP Constitution as amended.

The leaders of the group said there was urgent need for NEC to address the issues plaguing the party, noting that the mistake of the past has already been repeated.

According to them, the disregard and disrespect for the party constitution precipitated the crisis in the party in the immediate past, and the mistake has already been repeated.

They cautioned those calling for the suspension or expulsion of the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, to jettison it, as he that comes to equity must come with clean hands.

“That is why we are urging PDP members from bottom to top to adopt the Damagum Plan.

“We have written to our acting national chairman in a letter dated April 10, 2023 and demanded for a NEC meeting to address pressing issues plaguing the party, now there are even more pressing issues calling for urgent attention from the NEC.

“Today as we speak, we don’t have a national chairman and a national secretary, so how do you expect the party to function optimally in providing the urgent needed opposition voice that is expected of us by Nigerians?

“The NEC needs to meet to elect Damagum as the substantive national chairman to enable him move the party forward because as acting national chairman, there are limits to what he can do.

“They also need to elect a new National Secretary and deputy National Chairman North, and set up a Constitution amendment Committee among other issues.

“A critical look at the present sleepy status of the party and the crisis in Taraba, Kwara, Kogi, Imo and Edo states, among others should make party patriots see the justification in our demand,” the group leaders added.

They stated that no other NEC meeting has been held till date since the 97th NEC Meeting of Thursday, September 8, 2022.