Chuks Okocha in Abuja
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),has upheld Umar Iliya Damagum as the constitutionally recognised National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), thereby dismissing Abdulrahman Mohammed, a loyalist of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, as acting national chairman.
INEC, in a formal acknowledgment and recognition of the Damagum-led NWC, responded to a correspondence by Damagum and deployed election monitors for the PDP governorship primaries in Ado-Ekiti.