The board of trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has asked Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the party, to assure members
that he will resign after the 2023 general election.
The advice to Ayu is part of the resolutions of the PDP BoT
reached on Friday at a meeting in Abuja.
The BoT, led by Adolphus Wabara, had recently embarked on
“reconciliatory visits” to aggrieved members of the party, especially those in
the camp of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers.
Wike and his supporters have been demanding the resignation
of Ayu after former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar won the party’s presidential
ticket.
The call for Ayu’s resignation is on the grounds that the
national chairman and the presidential candidate of the party cannot be from
the same region.
However, some members of the party had rejected the call for
Ayu to resign, saying the national chairman can only resign after the presidential
election in February if Abubakar wins.
On Wednesday, Wike said the national chairman must step down
before the presidential election, adding that it would be “foolish” to ask Ayu
to resign after the polls have been concluded.
“This is the period
the power game is being played. If you don’t have it now, forget it. If anybody
tells you to let (Iyorchia) Ayu resign after the election is conducted, then
you are a foolish person,” the River governor had said.
Reading the communique issued after the meeting on Friday,
Wabara said the “BoT called on all party leaders and persons close to them to
desist forthwith from making further inflammatory remarks or press interviews”.
He said the BoT has asked the chairman of the PDP governors’
forum to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay.
According to him, all leaders of the party have been asked
to “match words with action and where commitments are made, to unconditionally
fulfil same.”
He also said the BoT “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 have sharpened the
current division in the party,” the communique reads.
“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.”
Wabara added that the BoT will refer some of the resolutions
and recommendations to the national executive committee (NEC) of the party for
further action.
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