{"id":116539,"date":"2024-04-21T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-nec-damaguns-survival-not-a-victory-for-wike-senator-moro"},"modified":"2024-04-21T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:33:35","slug":"pdp-nec-damaguns-survival-not-a-victory-for-wike-senator-moro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-nec-damaguns-survival-not-a-victory-for-wike-senator-moro","title":{"rendered":"PDP NEC: Damagun\u2019s survival not a victory for Wike \u2013 Senator Moro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District and Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro, on Saturday, stated that the survival of Amb. Umar Lliya Damagum as Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was a victory for the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said, it was not a defeat for anybody but a decision that was unanimously agreed by the relevant stakeholders for the party to forge ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moro\u2019s reaction was against the backdrop of rumour in some quarters that Amb. Damagum\u2019s survival, against call for his resignation, was victory for the former governor of River State and Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and a defeat for PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Alh. Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moro said the activities and inactivities of PDP should not be translated to Atiku and Wike, noting that the whole issue was not about victory or defeat for anybody but about PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot translate the entirety of PDP\u2019s activities and inactivities to Wike and Atiku, out of millions of other members of the party across the country who also have their own thinking and reasons for being in the party. The whole issue was not about Wike or Atiku, or victory for Wike or defeat for Atiku, the issue was existential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came together and reasoned together, that in the present scenario where Nigerians are hurting due to the maladministration of the APC government, what do we do to provide an alternative platform for Nigerians to look up to? In that circumstances, we decided to thread with caution so that we dont throw away the baby with the bath water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On why the National Caucus of the party allowed Nyesom Wike into their meeting, Senator Moro said the Minister couldn\u2019t have been stopped from the meeting since he has not been found guilty of any crime and penalized by the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the party\u2019s disciplinary committee, headed by Senator Bukola Saraki found Wike guilty of the alleged anti-party activities and have him sanctioned, he will stop attending the party\u2019s meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constitution of our party is very clear on who is a member and who is not a member of the caucus of the party and I dare say, at this point, that as a former governor who is still a member of the party, Nyesom Wike is a member of the National Caucus of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf actions had been taken immediately after the elections and people who are perceived to have acted contrary to the desires and yearnings of the PDP have been sanctioned, then we can say that having been expelled or suspended, you can\u2019t be here, but as it is, non of such actions has been taken, so you can\u2019t just ban people from attending meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the fallouts of the last NEC meeting was the resuscitation of the Reconciliation and Disciplinary Committee, which is saddled with the responsibility of identifying the area of anti-party and the dramatis personae involved in the activities, and recommend appropriate punitive measures against those who have been found guilty to serve as deterrent to future occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, that hasn\u2019t been done, and so to that extent, as a voluntary organization, if the members involved insist they are still members of the party, until actions are taken by the Reconciliation and Disciplinary Committee, we want to take that they are still members of the party,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On expectations from the next NEC meeting scheduled for August 15 as it concerns the position of the National Chairman of the party, the Senate Minority Leader said the party\u2019s constitution had a well spelt out succession plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constitution of our party has a well spelt-out succession plan. Section 35 (3C) states that where a vacancy exists, someone from the zone of the immediate past occupier of the office shall be appointed by NEC to complete the tenure of the person who vacated the office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the position of the National Chairman, we will look at the succession plan of the party, in accordance with the constitutional provisions, and produce a replacement for Senator Iyorchia Ayu from North Central now that he has heeded to our plea and withdrawn his case from the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will go to the next NEC meeting with open minds and invoke the relevant sections of the constitution to produce his replacement,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moro appealed to members and stakeholders of the party to have some level of circumspection and restraints in their actions and utterances so as not to further polarize the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe assured that everything humanly possible would be done to put the party on its winning ways, to rescue Nigerians from the grinding poverty and sufferings that the ruling APC has plunged them into,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District and Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro, on Saturday, stated that the survival of Amb. Umar Lliya Damagum as Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was a victory for the party. 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