By Raymond Gukas, Jos
The Plateau State Police Command may have finally endorsed the acting Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Hon. Amos Gombi, who formerly presented a letter of appointment to state police commissioner Isaac Akinmoyede.
With this development, the protracted crisis that threatened to tear the party in the recent past has now been put to rest.
Confirming this to newsmen, Gombi said the state police has now pledged to work with the party under his leadership after he presented the written letter by the national body of the party in Abuja confirming him as state chairman.
Since April last year, the PDP in the state was in crisis over alleged embezzlement of funds meant for the party’s logistics arrangements in the 2019 general elections in the state.
As a result, its state Chairman, Damishi Sango was placed on suspension along with his Deputy, Amos Gombi, by some members of the State Executive Committee.
However, the national body of the party set up a committee led by Sen. David Mark to resolve the issue and the committee reached a resolution and recommended that Sango should resign and hand over to his deputy Amos Gombi to run the affairs of the party in acting capacity, till party congresses are held.
Upon the recommendation, a letter of appointment was handed to Gombi by the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC).
However presenting the letter to the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, the CP asked all warring parties to refrain from frustrating Gombi, stating that his Command will only recognise him as Chairman and will cooperate with him to forestall any security breach emanating from the party secretariat.
According to Gombi: “The CP told them that they cannot undermine my position as Chairman and that in their best interest, they should cooperate with me as his command will only work with me.”
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