Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has stated that the party’s acting Chairman, Umar Damagum, opened the floodgates of crisis by directing Sam Anyanwu to resume as its National Secretary.
Naijaonpoint recalls that Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye have been at loggerheads over who occupies the office of the PDP’s National Secretary.
However, Damagum led a high-powered PDP delegation to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday to seek a resolution to the crisis.
Following the visit, Damagum directed Anyanwu to resume his duties at the PDP National Secretariat, but the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, countered the manner of the directive.
Wike stated that Damagum cannot give such an order because Anyanwu was not his appointee.
However, Ologbondiyan, during an interview with Arise Television, insisted that Damagum contravened the PDP’s constitution by directing Anyanwu to resume his duties as National Secretary.
He said, “When you talk about the issue of crisis in our party, I think the floodgate has just been opened because the action of Damagum acting in contravention of the party’s constitution by unilaterally directing Anyanwu to resume office as National Secretary, I can’t describe the implication.
“NEC which is superior to that National Working Committee, which is second only to the national convention of the party took a decision at the 99th meeting held at Legacy House in Abuja.
“It said look, we have taken the report of the Southeast who are complaining about the fact that their nomination has not been accepted, so at the next NEC meeting that will come up on June 30th, we will now take a decision.
“How can a selected group of people go and sit down somewhere that the person whose office is in question should resume.
“This is outside the resolution of the NEC, do we still have a party?”