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Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by nairalandkachy1(op): 2:34pm On Dec 02, 2025
Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Amb. Illiya Damagum, on Tuesday, formally handed over to the party’s leadership to the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC).

The tenure of the past NWC ends on December 8, amid a legal tussle with the camp led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

The handover event, held at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, was attended by some former members of the NWC.

Damagum said members of the new NWC have been saddled with the responsibility of putting the party together.

The former chairman said their experience will be a guide to the new leadership of the party.

Noting that the Turaki leadership emerged at a time of challenges, he said, “The beauty of it is that we were able to surmount all the obstacles that we faced and we will continue to surmount them.”

He described the future of the PDP is bright and that it is still the party to beat. “That’s why they lose sleep about PDP. They keep putting different hurdles in our way, but God will see us through. We are positive. God is a just God; He does not support injustice. “

Damagun added that those causing the crisis in the party might get respite for a while, but assured that they will face the consequences of their actions.

For his part, Turaki commended the immediate past NWC for their efforts and assured that he would continue to work for the party.
https://leadership.ng/damagum-hands-over-to-turaki-as-pdp-chairman/

Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by saintopus(m): 2:37pm On Dec 02, 2025
Wonderful!!!

What will be the fate of Wike and the courts..
I thought Damagun was Wike ally.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by HgAkpobomeEr: 3:03pm On Dec 02, 2025
The crisis in PDP is far from over.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by nairavsdollars(f): 3:17pm On Dec 02, 2025
Bye bye to Damagum the Damager of PDP
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Afriifa(m): 3:19pm On Dec 02, 2025
How a formidable party like PDP fell down because of one man called Wike speaks volumes about the destructive capacity of an untamed beast. People like Wike were handled with kids gloves, and like cancer it ate the PDP to its destruction today.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by slivertongue: 3:19pm On Dec 02, 2025
Happy new beginning to PDP. Wishing you what you wish yourself
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Efikman(m): 3:21pm On Dec 02, 2025
PDP is a finished party. Even the dancing governor Adeleke has left them.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by tophumble(m): 3:24pm On Dec 02, 2025
We pray for peace and unity in PDP
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by chrisxxx(m): 3:24pm On Dec 02, 2025
Efforts in futility. Seun I have said my mind and have nothing more to say
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by laslimdajay: 3:24pm On Dec 02, 2025
Is wike sideline again or what
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Salewa97: 3:24pm On Dec 02, 2025
PDP na wahala party oo. As they are about to hand over to a new NWC, there is a court case involving the new NWC and Wike camp.

PDP, the party of confusionists
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Nwaikpe: 3:34pm On Dec 02, 2025
Somehow, no one cares about PDP and APC anymore.
No one cares about LP and ADC

No one even cares about Nigerian politics anymore.
grin grin grin
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Gotocourt: 3:35pm On Dec 02, 2025
Justice for Emperor Wicked Wike grin.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Berankis: 3:36pm On Dec 02, 2025
Afriifa:
How a formidable party like PDP fell down because of one man called Wike speaks volumes about the destructive capacity of an untamed beast. People like Wike were handled with kids gloves, and like cancer it ate the PDP to its destruction today.
They were never formidable, they were just in power and after power is gone so goes the party too. Same fate awaits APC, there's absolutely nothing formidable about them either, just currently in power. If they lose power, the party will crumble immediately.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by ebukal67x: 3:39pm On Dec 02, 2025
Wike and his faction are in court, so he has no business with PDP NWC for now.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by anonimi: 3:39pm On Dec 02, 2025
Afriifa:
How a formidable party like PDP fell down because of one man called Wike speaks volumes about the destructive capacity of an untamed beast.

People like Wike were handled with kids gloves, and like cancer it ate the PDP to its destruction today.
It's quite tragic what happened to PDP through Wike.
How could Nigerians allow such a loss of opportunity for a formidable opposition to this one party state capture of Tinubu huh

anonimi:
Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT

Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.

Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.

The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.

The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.

The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.

Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.

https://dailytrust.com/wike-lobbied-pdp-committee-to-be-atikus-running-mate-ex-govship-aspirant/
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2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

ddippset:
Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.

Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku.
He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
grin grin

He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party..
Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.


This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.

He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by anonimi: 3:41pm On Dec 02, 2025
Nwaikpe:
Somehow, no one cares about PDP and APC anymore.
No one cares about LP and ADC

No one even cares about Nigerian politics anymore.
grin grin grin
How do you think that will help or hinder the politicians loot the commonwealth of those who don't care about the politics of their country, state and LGA huh

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Reloadedisraelp: 3:45pm On Dec 02, 2025
U dy handover on behalf of camera man... grin
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by yarimo(m): 3:48pm On Dec 02, 2025
Hahaha in Bauchi state governors lodge grin grin
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Reloadedisraelp: 3:50pm On Dec 02, 2025
saintopus:
Wonderful!!!

What will be the fate of Wike and the courts..
I thought Damagun was Wike ally.
wike size he land in Abuja for not having proper documents.... grin
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Nwaikpe: 3:50pm On Dec 02, 2025
anonimi:
How do you think that will help or hinder the politicians loot the commonwealth of those who don't care about the politics of their country, state and LGA huh
We cared; it didn't hinder.
So therefore,
We now don't care.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by AMI3(m): 3:51pm On Dec 02, 2025
laslimdajay:
Is wike sideline again or what
There is time for everything my brother.
Nothing last forever.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Moses2025: 3:52pm On Dec 02, 2025
nairalandkachy1:
https://leadership.ng/damagum-hands-over-to-turaki-as-pdp-chairman/
Congratulations to PDP family, we will fight it to the end. Wike too small to bring down PDP
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Reloadedisraelp: 3:52pm On Dec 02, 2025
[quote author=yarimo post=137668454]Hahaha in Bauchi state governors
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by trutharena: 3:59pm On Dec 02, 2025
In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I wish Tanimu Turaki the very best.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by hatchy: 4:36pm On Dec 02, 2025
Efikman:
PDP is a finished party. Even the dancing governor Adeleke has left them.
Is Adeleke the first to leave PDP?
Nobody takes him serious in the first place. A governor behaving like a 20 year old street urchin - always dancing.

PDP is coming back stronger and better and all those that left will regret it. 2027 is here already.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by press9jatv(m): 4:45pm On Dec 02, 2025
Kangaroo National Chairman will not stay long in that seat.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by 3Ceagle(m): 5:03pm On Dec 02, 2025
Berankis:
They were never formidable, they were just in power and after power is gone so goes the party too. Same fate awaits APC, there's absolutely nothing formidable about them either, just currently in power. If they lose power, the party will crumble immediately.
What gives any organization progress and longevity is the adherence to laid down rules, policy and convention. Through this, tradition is esterblished. Party supremacy can never take root if the plays lack the discipline and integrity to play by the rules.
PDP messed up when they allowed some individuals to play around with their rules and convention.
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by Cajal(m): 5:22pm On Dec 02, 2025
nairalandkachy1:
https://leadership.ng/damagum-hands-over-to-turaki-as-pdp-chairman/
We should be very careful of these politicians

How can you be deceiving us that PDP remains a viable opposition
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by bestman09(m): 6:20pm On Dec 02, 2025
Wow. Wike in the mud. Some people still thinks that PDP will disintegrate
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by opicgif: 6:28pm On Dec 02, 2025
[quote author=anonimi post=137668388]How do you think that will help or hinder the politicians loot the commonwealth of those who don't care about the politics of their country, state


you guys spread keep spreading this lie!

Atiku never offered to step down for the south east

It is a lie


Now that PO and Atiku are no longer in the PD, why is Atiku disturbing PO to be his vice?

There’s no more wike in the picture, why can’t he support PO? or south east?


Wike deserves every hate he gets but ATIKU IS THE CAUSE OF PDPs DOWNFALL
Re: Umar Damagum Hands Over To Turaki As PDP National Chairman by janvier27(m): 6:47pm On Dec 02, 2025
Party got so used to being lawless. When in govt, they could always get away with oppression and lawlessness within and outside the party because the finance and power was there. Out of power, the money dried up, but still continued with impunity and lawlessness; encouraged by those calling the party iroko that cannot be uprooted. Iroko is now being uprooted.
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