Damagum replaced Ayu
Umar Damagum (left) and Iyorchia Ayu. ...as acting chairman, the PDP crisis worsens I’m taking office to fulfill all righteousness — Damagum; NWC to meet, review developments today; Ayu behaved like a village headmaster — Bode George; Accept your reign has ended, Wike mocks Ayu Stakeholders in the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who want the National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to quit the position, have succeeded, at least in the interim. He will cease to function as national chairman until the court says otherwise. A Benue High Court on Monday ordered Ayu to stop parading himself as national chairman of the PDP pending determination of the suit before it. The National Working Committee, NWC of the PDP, acting on the order, yesterday, confirmed its Deputy National Chairman (North), Amb. Umar Illiya Damagum, as acting national chairman after Ayu, stepped aside in deference to the court order. The PDP NWC took the decision at an emergency meeting, yesterd...