Fresh Crisis Rocks SDP as Former APC Leader Becomes Factional Party Chairman A factional executive committee has unfolded in the Kogi State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after the congress was held at the party’s state secretariat on Wednesday.
The emergence of the new executive committee has created clash within the party with a former All Progressives Congress (APC) zonal leader, Ahmed Attah, voted as the new chairman and Idris Sofada as state secretary.
Politics Nigeria gathered that the 12-member executive committee was election during the congress by 3,890 delegates from the state’s 21 local government areas of Kogi state.
The exercise was duly monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Speaking after the congress, Attah promised to ensure justice, fairness and repositioning the party for expected victory in coming elections.
He said “This has positioned SDP as the party to beat in the 2028 governorship election.”
Surprisingly a parallel faction led by Moses Oricha described the congress organized by the party and illegal, null and void.
With Oricha’s executive congress to expire by April 2026, he implicated the organisers of the congress of violating due process and disregarding a matter already pending in the court.
“It has come to my notice that more or less individuals claiming to be SDP members hosted a state congress yesterday. This is laughable and criminal. They are faceless and sponsored by paymasters to cause rumble in our party,” Oricha reported.
The party’s leader further summoned on security agencies and its operatives to disregard the outcome of the congress as it was aimed at destabilising the party.
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Published 3/15/2025