SDP: Gombe remains national chairman
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has reaffirmed that its former National Chairman, Shehu Gabam, remains expelled, while Sadiq Gombe is the legitimate head of the party. The party’s National Publicity
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has reaffirmed that its former National Chairman, Shehu Gabam, remains expelled, while Sadiq Gombe is the legitimate head of the party.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Rufus Aiyenigba, announced this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.
Aiyenigba said the clarification followed the growing confusion over the interpretation of recent Court of Appeal rulings linked to the party’s Ekiti State governorship primary held on August 8, last year.
The SDP also accused Gabam of deliberately distorting court pronouncements to mislead the public and revive his political standing.
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The statement reads: “The SDP is mindful that a lie deliberately crafted and vigorously pushed into the public space, without being challenged and countered with superior facts, could pass for truth, and the misinformation becomes normalised and misleads the public.
“The national leadership hereby sets the record straight, by telling the public that the expelled National Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, who has become part of our documented past, is in a delusional state of mind, considering that the reality has dawned on him that his hope of saving his political career via a return to his former position in the party has evaporated.
Providing further clarification, the party maintained that no court had removed Gombe as its chairman and that the rulings in question strictly addressed disputes arising from governorship primaries in Ekiti and Osun states — not the party’s leadership structure.
