PDP to Take Decision on Wike's Demand, Consider Telling Ayu to Resign

PDP to Take Decision on Wike's Demand, May Ask Ayu to Step Aside

A source has disclosed that; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party's stakeholders may ask the National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to step aside to fulfil one of the key demands by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for peace to return to the party.

Findings revealed that this may happen as soon as the next round of meetings of the various organs of the party, culminating in a meeting of its highest decision-making body, its National Executive Committee (NEC), holds.

Despite the sustained pressure from the Wike group for Ayu to resign, the party boss cannot do so unless it becomes a decision of the party hierarchy.

The former Senate president had indeed alluded to this before the national convention of the party that produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, noting, at the time, that should the candidate emerge from the North, which is his own zone, he will step aside from his post if the party so decides.

Many party stakeholders have since assumed the position that he should resign since the presidential candidate comes from the same zone as himself so as to create the necessary geopolitical balance in the party organogram, especially as the North also holds the post of the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees.

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