The crisis plaguing the Social Democratic Party (SDP), one of the opposition parties, involved in the coalition to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has deepened following the decision of a faction within the party to disown the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Gabam.
Apart from rejecting Gabam, the faction also disowned what it describes as “illegal replacement of legally constituted SDP executives in various states by the coalition group, in conspiracy with a faction of the party.” The faction in statement titled: ‘Anti -Tinubu Coalition’, signed by Alhaji Alfa Mohammed, the national publicity secretary of the group, and made available to journalists yesterday pledged it’s loyalty to Chief Wole Adedina as its National Chairman.
According to the statement, “While the authentic SDP National Executive Committee now led by Chief Adesina draws its legitimacy from being the direct offshoot of Oba Olu Falae-led National Executive Committee that received the PDP defectors into the party, the second faction led by Shehu Gabam relies on a wrongly procured INEC recognition that has remained a subject of litigation since 2019.