Damagum dismisses defection rumours as politically motivated smear campaign Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Ilyas Umar Damagum, has refuted reports he is plotting to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He attributed the reports to desperate and determined political foes, asserting he was not pursuing a secret deal towards defecting to the APC. “It is my detractors,” Damagum asserted in a response to The Nation’s text message requesting clarifications over the alleged plans. He was alleged to be secretly plotting to dump PDP once his tenure as...