PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC

The Imo State section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its full enactment for the Umar Damagun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

The section has debunked reports successful immoderate quarters that the enactment successful the authorities has endorsed a purported caller acting chairman.

In a connection issued by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Lancelot Obiaku, the enactment stated that specified reports tin lone beryllium the handiwork of alleged impersonators and 5th columnists moving successful sync with enemies of the enactment to distort the peace, tranquility, and evident advancement of Imo PDP successful caller months.

“We privation to categorically accidental that astatine nary clip did the Hon. Austin Nwachukwu-led State Working Committee (SWC) and the State Executive Committee (SEC), stakeholders, oregon immoderate different organ of the enactment endorse immoderate different idiosyncratic arsenic the Acting National Chairman of our large party.

“Instructively, Imo PDP is alert of the subsisting and binding judgement of a Federal High Court barring immoderate unlawful suspension oregon removal of Amb. Damagun different than done a nationalist convention. Importantly, the verdict aligns with the party’s constitution, which we each swore to abide by. Articles 42, 47, and 67 of our constitution are wide connected that. Any idiosyncratic oregon radical averse to this shows themselves arsenic irresponsible,” helium stated.

Obiaku further stated that the enactment successful the authorities stands connected its earlier presumption regarding the bureau of the National Secretary of the party, presently occupied by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, whose leadership, according to him, has helped to assistance the PDP successful the authorities and Nigeria successful general.

The spokesperson for the enactment pointed retired that PDP enactment successful the authorities has assurance successful the quality of the Damagun-led nationalist enactment to steer the enactment to greater heights and navigate done a palmy nationalist legislature by December adjacent year, which helium believes volition conscionable the wishes of enactment members.

“For america successful Imo PDP, we are focused connected strengthening our platforms and providing viable absorption to the APC-led authorities authorities that has destroyed each cloth of the state’s system and acceptable the authorities astonishingly airy years backward, to the extremity that we volition presume enactment of the authorities astatine each levels successful 2027, arsenic is the privation of the immense bulk of Imo people. We are, therefore, excessively engaged to entangle ourselves successful self-imposed distractions arsenic we look guardant to delivering connected our halfway mandate,” helium declared.