2023: PDP BoT in firebrigade measure to stave off unending crisis, directs Ayu to resign

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday directed its National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu to resign amidst intra-party conflict.

 

The Party’s BoT Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara disclosed this in Abuja while presenting report submitted to the leadership of the party on reconciliation effort on the rift between Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.

 

The Board directed Ayu to resign after the 2023 general elections.

 

PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu

Wabara also asked all stakeholders to honour their commitments to the party and refrain from further inflammatory statements.

 

The BoT called on the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum to summon its meeting as part of efforts to reach common ground on the lingering party.

 

These were contained in the communique issued at the end of the meeting and read by the interim BoT Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara.

 

It stated: “After the special Board of Trustee meeting, the following resolutions were reached – to call on all Party leaders and persons close to them, to desist from making further inflammatory remarks or granting press interviews.

 

To call on the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum to convene a meeting of the PDP Governors Forum without further delay.

 

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

 

“To urge the National Chairman as an eminent leader to give a firm assurance that he would resign his position after the 2023 elections. In the same vein, the BoT Chairman has been authorized to offer apologies on behalf of all members who feel maligned or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members across the country that have sharpened the current division in the party.

 

“To call on the presidential candidate to review its appointments of members of the campaign council and other advisory appointments to make it all-inclusive.”