Ex-National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has raised the alarm that the Acting National Chairman of the Party, Ambassador Umar Ilyasu Damagum, will extinguished life out of the PDP unless the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for November 28 elect a substantive National Chairman from the North Central as directed by Section 47 (6) of the party’s Constitution (2017 Amendment).
Ologbondiyan, who stated this while interfacing with the G12-Renaissance Group of the PDP in Abuja, on Sunday, said the consistent losses of the party in the off-season elections reflected the dismal performance of Damagum.
Expressing concern at the party’s loss in Saturday’s Ondo State Governorship election, Ologbondiyan insisted that if a substantive National Chairman is not restored for the party, successive off-season elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun may suffer the fate of Kogi, Imo and Ondo States.
“It is reprehensible that the Acting National Chairman is supervising the dishevelling of the party,” he added.
“Amb. Damagun has the least of interest in working for the suçcess of the party in any election,” he further noted.
Recalling the allegation against Damagum in the public space in which he was alleged to have met with President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in London, Ologbondiyan challenged the embattled Acting National Chairman to speak up.
“How can the head of the leading opposition party be accused of nicodemusly meeting with the President of the ruling government, and he would have no response to provide?”
Ologbondiyan urged the party leaders to rescue the PDP from the stranglehold of Amb. Damagum and his backers, if the party must be revitalised to perform optimally as opposition political party.