Gov Mohammed assured that PDP is working towards resolving its internal issues through collaboration among key party stakeholders
By Kehinde Okeowo
Bauchi State governor and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Bala Mohammed, has dismissed recent speculations of divisions within his party.
He made this known after the party’s embattled acting national chairman, Umar Damagum led PDP chairmen from the North East on a visit to him at the Government House, Bauchi, on Friday.
Earlier, a faction of the PDP National Working Committee, NWC, had suspended Damagum and the party’s National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu.
The factional NWC also suspended the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade.
However, an Abuja Federal High Court restrained the National Executive Committee (NEC) and PDP’s Board of Trustees (BoT) from removing Damagum as the party’s Acting National Chairman.
Justice Peter Lifu while delivering judgement ordered that no person other than Damagum should be recognised as PDP national chairman until the party’s national convention scheduled for December 2025.
Despite this, while speaking at the closed-door meeting with the PDP stakeholders, Gov Mohammed insisted that the party remained intact and would resolve its internal crisis amicably.
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He said, “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.”
Gov Mohammed further assured that the PDP is actively working towards resolving internal issues through collaboration among key party stakeholders.
According to him, the final decision does not rest on him alone but on other members who are stakeholders within the PDP Governors’ Forum, the Board of Trustees (BOT), the caucus, and other high-ranking party members.
He further noted that consultations with his fellow PDP governors are ongoing to determine the next steps.
“This has been a productive outing, and I am assured that the party will come together to resolve all contending issues. We have agreed, in the presence of other stakeholders, that we will do whatever it takes to restore the party’s glory so it can achieve victory in the 2027 elections,” the governor added.
