{"id":27168,"date":"2024-04-14T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/moro-tackles-pdp-reps-over-call-for-acting-national-chairmans-resignation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T18:04:55","slug":"moro-tackles-pdp-reps-over-call-for-acting-national-chairmans-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/moro-tackles-pdp-reps-over-call-for-acting-national-chairmans-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Moro tackles PDP Reps over call for Acting National Chairman\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro has faulted a group of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in the House of Representatives for calling for the resignation of the party\u2019s Acting National Chairman, Umar Iliya Damagun.<\/p>\n<p>Moro, who represents Benue South Senatorial district, described the call as ill-timed and inappropriate, advising party members to sheathe their swords.<\/p>\n<p>He was reacting to the call for Damagum\u2019s resignation by a group led by member representing Ideato Federal Constituency in Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere.<\/p>\n<p>The group had accused the Acting National Chairman of working for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Moro, however, noted that the call was Ugochinyere\u2019s personal opinion as it does not reflect the opinion of PDP federal lawmakers, especially PDP Senators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe call coming few days to the long-awaited and most anticipated NEC meeting of the party was a needless ruffling of feathers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no basis for anyone to suggest that the seat be thrown open or zoned to any other region apart from North Central.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP has a Constitution, the ground norm of its existence, which provides for two Deputy Chairmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt said where there\u2019s vacancy, the deputy chairman of the zone where the embattled National Chairman comes from will act,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moro tackles PDP Reps over call for Acting National Chairman\u2019s resignation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro has faulted a group of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in the House of Representatives&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5893,15,490,1768],"tags":[4866,180,150,1255],"class_list":["post-27168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moro","category-news","category-pdp","category-reps","tag-moro","tag-news","tag-pdp","tag-reps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}