PDP crisis worsens as Kogi stakeholders resist influence of Dino Melaye in state congress

  • Fresh crisis rocks the leadership of the PDP in Kogi state as stakeholders exposed the move by Senator Dino Melaye to hijack state executive
  • Kogi PDP Elders Forum raised the alarm and vowed to resist the attempts by Sen. Danjuma Lah, the caretaker chairman and his secretary, Sen. Philip Aruwa Gyunka, to hand the party’s state structure to Melaye
  • Ahead of the state congress, the aggrieved party chieftains urged the PDP national leadership to intervene, threatening that “any attempt to impose candidates on the party would lead to a crisis”

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

The political atmosphere in Kogi state is tense as stakeholders from the Kogi East PDP have opposed the moves by the caretaker chairman, Sen. Danjuma Lah, and his secretary, Sen. Philip Aruwa Gyunka, to impose their preferred candidates on the party ahead of the state congress.