Former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan declares self PDP chairman

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Information reaching us has it that former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, today, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 pdeclared himself the substantive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He made the declaration inside the National Working Committee Hall at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja and spoke in company with his loyalists, which included former Special Assistant to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe and a former Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Chief Ayakeme Whisky.
Gulak said he decided to take over the leadership of the party following the court order of December 16, 2015, which asked the party to name someone from the North-East to replace the former chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
Gulak told the cheering crowd, which included workers at the secretariat, that the NWC must work with him in order to move the party forward.
Source: The Punch