{"id":134360,"date":"2024-10-15T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc"},"modified":"2024-10-15T23:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:52:48","slug":"pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc","title":{"rendered":"PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its total support for the Umar Damagun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.<\/p>\n<p>The chapter has debunked reports in some quarters that the party in the state has endorsed a purported new acting chairman.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Lancelot Obiaku, the party stated that such reports can only be the handiwork of alleged impersonators and fifth columnists working in sync with enemies of the party to distort the peace, tranquility, and evident progress of Imo PDP in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to categorically say that at no time did the Hon. Austin Nwachukwu-led State Working Committee (SWC) and the State Executive Committee (SEC), stakeholders, or any other organ of the party endorse any other person as the Acting National Chairman of our great party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstructively, Imo PDP is aware of the subsisting and binding judgment of a Federal High Court barring any unlawful suspension or removal of Amb. Damagun other than through a national convention. Importantly, the verdict aligns with the party\u2019s constitution, which we all swore to abide by. Articles 42, 47, and 67 of our constitution are clear on that. Any person or group averse to this shows themselves as irresponsible,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Obiaku further stated that the party in the state stands on its earlier position regarding the office of the National Secretary of the party, currently occupied by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, whose leadership, according to him, has helped to lift the PDP in the state and Nigeria in general.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the party pointed out that PDP leadership in the state has confidence in the ability of the Damagun-led national leadership to steer the party to greater heights and navigate through a successful national congress by December next year, which he believes will meet the wishes of party members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us in Imo PDP, we are focused on strengthening our platforms and providing viable opposition to the APC-led state government that has destroyed every fabric of the state\u2019s economy and set the state astonishingly light years backward, to the end that we will assume leadership of the state at all levels in 2027, as is the wish of the vast majority of Imo people. We are, therefore, too busy to entangle ourselves in self-imposed distractions as we look forward to delivering on our core mandate,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its total support for the Umar Damagun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. The chapter has debunked reports in some quarters that the party in the state has endorsed a purported new acting chairman. In a statement issued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":134359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13306,1018,254,15024],"class_list":["post-134360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-damagun","tag-imo","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp-leadership-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its total support for the Umar Damagun-led Nat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its total support for the Umar Damagun-led Nat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-15T21:48:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-15T22:52:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729020135.507156.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-15T21:48:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-15T22:52:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\"},\"wordCount\":420,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1729020135.507156.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Damagun\",\"Imo\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP leadership crisis\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-leadership-crisis-imo-chapter-backs-damagun-led-nwc\",\"name\":\"PDP leadership crisis: Imo chapter backs Damagun-led NWC - 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