The internal crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a dramatic turn on Friday as the faction loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, announced the dissolution of the party’s Board of Trustees led by former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara.
Sources reports that the announcement came during a meeting held at Wike’s Life Camp residence in Abuja, where the factional Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrahman Muhammad, inaugurated a new BoT.
Speaking before the meeting went into a closed session, Muhammad said the dissolution was necessary to restore constitutional order and moral direction within the party.
He accused the Wabara-led BoT of losing the “moral balance expected of that noble institution,” insisting that Wabara’s alleged suspension by the Abia State PDP for anti-party activities made his continued leadership “untenable.”
“The Board that was meant to be the moral compass of our party became divided and ineffective. The credibility of that leadership was heavily questioned, and its continued role in national advisory matters became impossible to sustain,” he said.
The newly reconstituted BoT is expected to be unveiled at the end of the meeting.
Muhammad also took aim at the tenure of the suspended National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, accusing him of undermining internal discipline.
According to him, Damagum protected individuals who openly violated the party’s constitution, choosing “convenience over the rule of law.”
“When any political party begins to disregard its own constitution and laws, it loses the very soul that holds it together. This was the painful reality we faced,” he declared.
He praised three party members who sought judicial intervention to “save the PDP from itself,” adding that the recent Federal High Court ruling had cleared the way for the party to reconstitute the BoT.
He said, “The court judgement was not an attack on the PDP; it was a reminder that no institution is greater than the law.”
