{"id":7460,"date":"2025-08-26T03:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:30:56","slug":"damagum-confirmed-as-pdp-substantive-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/damagum-confirmed-as-pdp-substantive-national-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Damagum confirmed as PDP substantive national chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/download-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7461\" \/><br \/>\nDamagun <\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<br \/>\nKindly Share:<\/p>\n<p>Umar Damagum has been confirmed  as the substantive National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, until its elective national convention slated for Ibadan, Oyo State, on<br \/>\nNovember 15 and 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation by the party&#8217;s National Executive Committee, NEC, was one of the key resolutions reached during the ongoing 102nd NEC meeting held at the party\u2019s national secretariat in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Damagum was administered the oath of office by the party\u2019s National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, in accordance with Article 65 of the PDP Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Damagum thanked the leadership of the party for the confidence reposed in him and the National Working Committee, NWC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore now, I thought all we were doing was not being appreciated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gesture is not just for me, but for the entire NWC. I owe it to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have navigated this party this far, we came in at a time when things were very hard, but to the glory of God, we are still intact as one indivisible party.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Damagum became the acting national chairman on March 28, 2023, following a Benue State High Court order that confirmed the removal of former Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu.<\/p>\n<p>He had served as the PDP Deputy National Chairman (North) before his appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damagun By Publisher Kindly Share: Umar Damagum has been confirmed as the substantive National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[788,271],"class_list":["post-7460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ambassador-illiya-damagun","tag-peoples-democratic-party"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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