Dino Melaye Ran for Kogi Governorship but Didn’t Vote for Himself – PDP Chairman Reveals

Dino Melaye Ran for Kogi Governorship but Didn’t Vote for Himself – PDP Chairman Reveals, PDP, Nigeria’s main opposition party, is currently enmeshed in internal wranglings that are threatening its core. The crisis started over two years ago, following the conclusion of the party’s presidential convention which produced Atiku Abubakar as the candidate for the 2023 election.

Displeased with Atiku’s emergence due to his Northern root, a group of five governors dubbed the G-5 revolted against the party and chose to support the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) flag-bearer, Bola Tinubu, based on fairness and justice to the southern part of the country.

Atiku eventually lost the election to Tinubu but that has done little to resolve the impasse in the PDP.

The two committees are tasked to ensure reconciliation among aggrieved members and enforce unity and discipline in the party.

However, a few days after the inauguration, Melaye came out to criticise the PDP leadership.

In a post on his X on Saturday, August 24, 2024, the former Senator alleged that the party under Damagum’s leadership has been commercialised and privatised.

Melaye also called out the National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, and the National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, for destroying the party.

“End of the road for PDP as Damagum, Bature and Anyanwu irredeemably destroyed the party. We will talk about the commercialisation and privatisation of PDP. PDP is now once upon a time,” he wrote.