Elected deputies of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) have declared that all members of the party contributed to the current crisis rocking the main opposition party.
This is as they declared support for Umar Damagum and maintained that he would remain in office as the PDP Chairman until December 2025.
The PDP chieftains, led by the party’s Deputy National Youth Leader, Comrade Timothy Osadolor, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, added that anyone who is not okay with the declaration can exit the party.
According to Osadolor and his colleagues, no single individual can be blamed for the current situation in which the party has found itself, adding that it is time to stop the blame game and work for the restoration of the party’s fortunes.
He also challenged party members to stop using court orders and media interviews to distract the party and join hands with Damagum to move the PDP forward.
On the leadership crisis rocking the PDP regarding the National Secretary position, which two persons are laying claim to, Osadolor said the party would wait for the court’s decision.
He said, “From 2013 to date, personal ambitions have driven us to heights of pure mischief and arrogant use of power.
“This has led to agreements not being kept and the ambiguities in our Constitution being exploited by those in position, even through the courts.
“We are all complicit by being perpetrators, supporters, or silent. No one is coming to save us; we must stand up and become heroes; we brought ourselves here.
“This is no longer the time for a blame game; all have sinned. From the BOT chairman, who endorsed an opposition governor, to candidates that negotiated and supported other party candidates in promises to get their return support, to NWC members and leaders that lost their polling units.
“We must all come down from our high horses, forget pride for now, and join hands with the party as led by Amb. Illya Damagum to reposition this party back to winning ways.
“Court distractions and media demarketing of the PDP must stop forthwith. You do not need to like the officers, but the party is more important.
“If you want to resign and go, be a proper opposition; do not be here and go from TV house to radio house abusing the party.
“The case of the acting national chairman is settled till December 2025, and on that of the National Secretary, we wait on the courts. Let’s learn to love and support PDP first and always.”
He listed issues such as distrust, insincerity, lack of firm enforcement of agreements, self-serving interests, and unnecessary eye service that is laced with smooth tongues as some of the factors responsible for the PDP crisis.
Osadolor added that the PDP is also dealing with the tyranny of the All Progressives Congress-led federal government against the party and Nigerians in general.
“This behaviour is apparently self-serving on their part, as it is not in the interest of the PDP in any way. It is ethically and morally wrong for members of the party to move around creating confusion instead of exploring our internal mechanism for peace,” he added.
OsunDailyNG reports those present at the press briefing were the PDP Deputy National Youth Leader Timothy Osadolor, Deputy National Publicity Secretary Ibrahim Abdullahi, Deputy National Financial Secretary Ndubisi Eneh, and National Deputy Organising Secretary Pascal Adigwe.
