Call for resignation of PDP chair ill-timed, inappropriate – Senator Moro

The Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has described the call for the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) acting National Chairman, Amb. Umar lliya Damagum as, “ill-timed and inappropriate.”

Senator Morro, who is representing Benue South in the National Assembly, made the observation at the weekend while reacting to the call for Damagum’s resignation by the member representing Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga  Ugochinyere.

Ugochinyere had accused Damagum of working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and failing to call a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party since he replaced Senator Iyorchia Ayu as the PDP acting national chairman.

But Moro said Ugochinyere was only ventilating his own opinion, stressing it did not reflect the opinion of PDP federal lawmakers, especially PDP senators.

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He said the call, coming a few days to the long-awaited and most anticipated NEC meeting of the party, was a needless ruffling of feathers.

Moro maintained that the scheduled NEC meeting would afford members of NEC the opportunity to ventilate their opinions on the goings on in the party, adding that they are looking forward to a robust discussion on the issues concerning the party and Nigeria at large.

Moro argued that the seat of the national chairman of the party required no basis for anyone to suggest it should be thrown open or zoned to any other region apart from the North Central.

He said PDP has a constitution, the grand norm of its existence, which provides for two deputy chairmen, stressing that where there is a vacancy, the deputy chairman of the zone where the embattled national chairman comes from will occupy it in acting capacity.