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Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagum, has gone the way of a former chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu.
Speaking on Sunday in in Ado Ekiti,
Fayose hailed the emergence of Mohammed Abdulrahman as the acting national chairman
The PDP chieftain charged the acting national chairman to reposition the party, make necessary amends at the state chapters and prepare for the national convention.
According to him, the situation under Damagum had similarities with that of a former national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.
Fayose noted that PDP had been in a hopeless situation, saying, “There is no hope of PDP coming back for now. Even the captains of our boats are jumping ship. They are jumping from one bed to another. So who is going to hold the party together?
“PDP has reasonably gone to extinction, unfortunately. The Damagun-led National Working Committee are undertakers. They have come to bury the party. It will interest you that they are going in less than one month or two, they are still suspending and counter-suspending.
“But you never can tell. You can find a doctor in an Abdulrahman who is willing to turn the table around for the party. But right now, the party is in comatose.
“If somebody comes to the rescue and decides to rescue the party, as in the instance case of Abdulrahman, we will gave him a chance. That’s why I said earlier that he should go and rescue this party.
“We are happy we have a new acting national chairman, Abdurrahman, who emerged yesterday (Saturday) as a result of the confidence reposed in him after the suspension of the former chairman.
“You will recall this is the same way PDP former chairman, Iyorchia Ayu’s crisis started. Damagun will go the way of Ayu, I can assure you. His last service to the party was before the suspension.
“Damagun is not going to return to that office as chairman.
“In the first place, he (Damagum) was not supposed to be the chairman. He only represented an interregnum, but manipulated the process to become the chairman and caused so much confusion. He caused so much confusion everywhere.”
