Breaking: PDP Crisis Deepens As Wike, Loyalists, Pull Out Of Atiku’s Campaign

The Governor Nyesom Wike led tendency in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar insisting that Senator Iyorcha Ayu must step down as national chairman indicative of the deepening crisis in the party.

The resolution was taken at a meeting at the country home of Wike in Obio-Akpor that ended on Wednesday morning.

Prominent members of the tendency including founding members of the party, Governors, former Ministers and other leaders of the party made stance known in a resolution read by a former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George.

Reading the resolution, George said: “Senator Iyorchia Ayu must resign as the National Chairman of the party for an acting Chairman of the Southern Nigerian extraction to emerge and lead the party on the national campaign.

“Consequently, we resolve not to participate in the campaign council in whatever capacity until the resignation of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu”.

They further accused Ayu of compromising the May 28 and 29 presidential primary of the party through his conduct and as such the loyalists aligned to Wike resolved to pull out of the Atiku campaign.

The immediate former governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang described Ayu to a bad referee, who assisted one side to score a goal during a football match and later blew the whistle.

Jang said: “For a National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu to go and embrace Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tanbuwal, calling him the hero of the convention meant that there was a private arrangement that was done with Tambuwal to shortchange other contestants including Governor Wike.

“Here was a referee, who helped one of his sides to score a goal and then blew the whistle. This is not what we formed the PDP to do for Nigerians. Therefore, we unequivocally ask that Ayu must step down”.

They said their support for Wike was neither because he lost the presidential primary nor because he was not chosen as the Vice-presidential running mate but because of equity and justice in the party.

A former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, said if the party intended to restructure Nigeria it should have the courage to restructure itself.

“You cannot build on a faulty foundation. This call for the chairman to step down or resign is not because any of us is aggrieved but because we believe it is important to ensure a a just, fair, principled and constitutional structure for the party. If we want to restructure Nigeria, we should have the courage to restructure our party”.

Oyo Governor, Seyi Makinde, said: “We hope that the powers that be listen to the voice of reason and do the needful” he said in backing the decision of the Wike loyalists to pull out of the Atiku campaign.

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