The news making the rounds that the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagun, has resigned his position as National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been punctured and, tagged fake news over the weekend.
The authors of the fake news had, according to the statement, attributed their source of information to Arise News.
But while setting the record straight in a press release made available to newsmen in Abuja, Damagum’s personal assistant, Nuru Shehu Jos, cautioned those he described as mischief makers “to desist forthwith from trading fake news to malign a dedicated and hardworking man.”
It reads further: “To set the record straight, the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagun, has not resigned from his office.
“The PDP constitution affords the National Chairman a term of 4 years in office, for the first instance.
“We insist that this malicious content against Ambassador Damagum is fake, defamatory, and a height of criminality.
“We therefore call on all members of the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP, elders, stakeholders, all youth and women groups, to disregard the fake news. We assure the sponsors of this evil that soon the law of the land will catch up with them.”