The Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Umar Damagum, has disclosed that he declined stress to punish erring members for the sake of the occasion.
Damagum, who said this in his speech on the Board of Trustees assembly of PDP on Wednesday in Abuja, admitted to creating determination and compromises over the sanction of occasion members, which he stated, was for the occasion’s curiosity.
He, nevertheless, stated regardless of the preliminary authorized hitches, the 2025 Elective Nationwide Conference of the occasion will maintain.
The PDP chairman urged that the subsequent Nationwide Working Committee of the occasion be made up of women and men of integrity able to rallying the bottom, reviving conventional buildings, and galvanizing new members throughout the federation.
“Yesterday, the 4th of November 2025, Justice Akintola delivered a landmark ruling affirming that our occasion has sufficiently happy all provisions of the regulation and due to this fact retains the constitutional proper to organise its inner democratic processes — particularly, to carry the 2025 Elective Nationwide Conference.
“I need to confess that what Justice Akintola did, on this period of judicial intimidation and ethical compromise, is an act of braveness.
“In a time when some have sought to control our courts and intimidate our judges, it takes bravery to face for the reality and defend the regulation. His judgment is not only a victory for our occasion, however for democracy itself.
“And that, my pricey occasion leaders and members, is precisely what this second in our nationwide trajectory calls for of us as an opposition occasion: Braveness.”
He stated braveness may be contagious, however will also be misunderstood.
He recalled that when he assumed workplace because the Performing Nationwide Chairman of the PDP, he met a deeply divided factions distrusting each other, and suspicion clouding the shared goal.
“I realised then that what our occasion wanted most was reconciliation, not vengeance, not anger, not blame. We would have liked to heal the injuries opened after the 2023 normal elections.
“On the time, some felt I used to be taking sides as a result of I refused to indulge within the vindictiveness of punishing these they needed punished. However I knew higher. Once they couldn’t perceive the knowledge of sheathing their swords, they left the occasion.
“But, even now, these I used to be accused of aligning with have fully misunderstood my intentions. The reality is straightforward: each determination I took, each compromise I made, each gesture of lodging was for the sake of the occasion.
“I selected the occasion, not people, not factions, however the enduring establishment of the PDP that shall outlive us all. That’s what loyalty and braveness means.
“Braveness can be what our subsequent Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) should possess. Our democracy is being dragged by the mud, and past that, we now face the danger of overseas interference and safety threats that problem our sovereignty,” Damagun stated.
