PDP Lawmaker Calls For Acting National Chair’s Sack

A member of the House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has joined in the call for the resignation of the Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum.

He stated this during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, that Damagum must resign to give way for a leadership that would properly pilot the affairs of the party.

Ugochinyere who is representing the Ideato Federal Constituency in Imo State, alongside 59 other members called for the resignation of Damagum whom they accused of working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The federal legislator chastised Damagum for not convening a National Executive Council (NEC) after taking Iyorchia Ayu’s place as PDP Chairman, which was terminated by the court.

“Aside the fact that he has not held an NEC meeting, since we came out from the presidential election, we are supposed to have done post-assessment of the election, find out why we performed so poorly during the election, be able to reach out to members of the party to appreciate them.

“He has not had any relationship or meeting with lawmakers elected on the platform of the party in the parliament. People are left to keep wandering like sheep with no shepherd. There has not been any single leadership that he has provided,” Ugochinyere said.

He claimed that Damagum’s purported lack of leadership is the reason the PDP hasn’t been acting as the opposition to stop the ruling APC. Ugochinyere insisted that the interim chairman should step down, citing governors elected on the PDP platform as evidence that the party has become irrelevant.

He disapproved of the party’s leadership’s lack of response to the political circumstances in Rivers State and allowing President Bola Tinubu take the lead. 

The legislator also lists the supposed APC members’ induction into the PDP’s caretakers committee in certain states as one of Damagum’s transgressions.