PDP Crisis: Wike’s group insists Ayu resigns, pulls out of Atiku’s campaign council

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The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a further slide on Wednesday as Governor Nyesom Wike’s team reportedly pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Shortly after a meeting early Wednesday morning in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, the development was revealed.

Our source gathered that members of the Wike’s team, during the meeting, vowed not to play any role in Atiku’s campaign ahead of the 2023 general elections.

They said they have no part in the coming presidential election until the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, resigns his position.

In a communique read by a chieftain of the PDP, Olabode George, in the meeting at the village home of Governor Wike, it was resolved that unless Ayu resigns his position as the national chairman of the party for an Acting southern chairman, the team would never participate in the campaigns.

Some key faces in the meeting included Bode George, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, former Governors of Ondo, Olusegun Mimiko, Donald Duke of Cross River, Jonah Jang of Plateau, Ayo Fayose of Ekiti States, Prof Jerry Gana, among others.

According to a source, the meeting, which started at about 7 pm on Tuesday, lasted till about 3 am on Wednesday.

Recall that Wike’s loyalists in the main opposition party had demanded the resignation of Ayu as the only condition to restore normalcy in the party.

 Source: dailypost.ng

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