No division in PDP, Damagun remains suspended- Bala Mohammed

Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed on Friday dsaid there was no division within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Bala, who is also the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, did not react to the suspension of Umar Damagun.

Damagun was reportedly suspended by a faction of the PDP’s National Working Committee, NWC, along with National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu due to alleged disloyalty.

However, the Federal High Court in Abuja restrained the National Executive Committee, NEC, and Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from removing Umar Damagum as the acting national chairman of the party.

Justice Peter Lifu on Friday ordered that no person other than Damagum should be recognised as PDP national chairman until the party’s national convention scheduled for December 2025.

Prior to Damagun’s suspension, Governor Mohammed had slammed the leadership of the PDP led by the suspended Chairman.

Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the PDP stakeholders, Governor Mohammed maintained that the party remained intact and would resolve its internal crisis amicably.

His words: “I would say that we have met and discussed these situations extensively with the acting National Chairman and we have agreed to work together along with other party organs—the BOT, members of the Governors’ Forum, caucuses of the Senate and the House—to resolve all these issues and that is the major takeaway of this visit.

“We will deepen stakeholding, and collaboration so that all these issues that are disparaging the members of the party will be resolved and nipped in the bud.

“We have decided that henceforth, we will not allow a gap and we will make sure that we resolve all these issues.

“We are not recognising any faction, we are together as a body and definitely, at the end of the day, we will resolve all issues.”