BY SHEHU MUSA, Dutse.
The crisis of confidence rocking the Jigawa State wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken another dimension as the National Secretariat of the party has directed the North West Zonal offices to take charge and supervise the activities of the state caretaker committee headed by Ambassador Umar Mungadi.
In a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party declared the purported composition and inauguration of caretaker committees in the 27 local governments in Jigawa State as illegal, null and void.
The state PDP caretaker chairman Alhaji Umar Mungadi in a press briefing at the secretariat in Dutse declared that the earlier inaugurated 135 member local government caretaker committee was thereby dissolved.
Mungadi said the decision followed an earlier petition by a faction of the PDP from the state under Aminu Ibrahim Ringim which the made the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to rescind the appointments.
He said the NWC had called on all our leaders, members and supporters in Jigawa State and the nation at large to disregard the purported caretaker committees as they do not have the mandate and approval of the party at any level.
The NWC assures all members of the party in the state and urged them to remain calm and continue to work with the North West Zonal Working Committee as it coordinates the activities of the Jigawa State Caretaker Committee.