PDP BoT to Ayu: Declare you’ll resign after 2023 polls

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party has urged the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to declare that he will resign his position after the 2023 general election.

This is just as the leadership of the PDP also ordered the BoT Chairman, Sen Adolphus Wabara, to offer apologies to party members who felt maligned or aggrieved by the statements which led to a crisis in the party.

This was made known after the PDP BoT’s meeting in Abuja on Friday.

The Star recalls that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who lost the party’s presidential primaries to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in May, and his allies have since been calling for the removal of Ayu.

The governor had said Ayu promised to resign if the party’s presidential candidate comes from the North.

However, the PDP BoT, on Friday, “called on all party leaders and persons close to them to desist forthwith from making further inflammatory remarks or press interviews.

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“Called on the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay.

“Called on all leaders of the party to match words with action and where commitments are made to unconditionally fulfill same.

“Urged the National Chairman as an eminent leader, to give a firm assurance that he will resign his position after the 2023 election. In the same vein, the BoT Chairman has been authorised to offer apologies on behalf of all members who feel maligned or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members nationwide that has sharpened the current division in the Party.

“The BoT also called on the presidential candidate to review its membership of the Presidential Campaign Council, and other advisory appointments to make it all inclusive.

“Finally, the BoT will refer some of these recommendations for noting and appropriate action to NEC of the party in due course,” the party stated.

It would be recalled that Wike and his allies, Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, called for the resignation of Ayu as a condition to campaign for Atiku ahead of the 2023 polls, adding that the party’s chairman should step down for a southerner.

The governor and his loyalists, on September 20, announced their withdrawal from the PDP presidential campaign council.

They also boycotted the inauguration of the party’s campaign council held on September 28 in Abuja.

They equally failed to attend the flag-off of the PDP presidential campaign in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday.

The Star