PDP BoT to Ayu: Promise to step down after 2023 poll
The PDP (BoT) Board of Directors wants the party's national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to assure members and Nigerians that he will step down from office after the 2023 general election.
This was part of the resolutions taken at the end of the board meeting at the party secretariat on Friday.
The call comes amid the continuing crisis within the party with many aggrieved members led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike calling for the resignation of the chairman.
Their demand, they said, is aimed at balancing the imbalance in the party's leadership structure and providing better representation for southern members.
The aggrieved members said that since the presidential candidate is from the north, Mr. Ayu should make way for a southerner to take the post.
To appease those aggrieved, Walid Jibrin, also from the north, resigned as BoT chairman in September.
The party's Presidential Campaign Council had denied suspending campaign activities in order to reconcile with aggrieved members.
The Chief Executive of the Council, Aminu Tambuwal, announced that the PDP will take its campaign train to Kaduna on Monday.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Acting BoT Chairman Aldolphus Wabara hinted that the party had decided "to urge the National Chairman, as an eminent leader, to give strong assurances that he would step down from his post after the 2023 elections.”
Similarly, the Chairman of the BoT said that he has been authorized to issue an apology on behalf of any members who feel slandered or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members at the nationwide that have accentuated the current division within the party.
While calling on party leaders and their supporters to refrain from making any further inflammatory remarks or granting press interviews, Wabara called on the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum , Mr. Tambuwal, to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay. .
Mr. Wabara also asked the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to review the composition of the Campaign Council and other advisory appointments to make it inclusive.
Party leaders were urged to match words with deeds and, where commitments are made, to honor them unconditionally.
Mr. Wabara also assured that the BoT will forward some of the recommendations and appropriate measures to the party's NEC in due course.
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The PDP (BoT) Board of Directors wants the party's national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to assure members and Nigerians that he will step down from office after the 2023 general election.
This was part of the resolutions taken at the end of the board meeting at the party secretariat on Friday.
The call comes amid the continuing crisis within the party with many aggrieved members led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike calling for the resignation of the chairman.
Their demand, they said, is aimed at balancing the imbalance in the party's leadership structure and providing better representation for southern members.
The aggrieved members said that since the presidential candidate is from the north, Mr. Ayu should make way for a southerner to take the post.
To appease those aggrieved, Walid Jibrin, also from the north, resigned as BoT chairman in September.
The party's Presidential Campaign Council had denied suspending campaign activities in order to reconcile with aggrieved members.
The Chief Executive of the Council, Aminu Tambuwal, announced that the PDP will take its campaign train to Kaduna on Monday.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Acting BoT Chairman Aldolphus Wabara hinted that the party had decided "to urge the National Chairman, as an eminent leader, to give strong assurances that he would step down from his post after the 2023 elections.”
Similarly, the Chairman of the BoT said that he has been authorized to issue an apology on behalf of any members who feel slandered or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members at the nationwide that have accentuated the current division within the party.
While calling on party leaders and their supporters to refrain from making any further inflammatory remarks or granting press interviews, Wabara called on the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum , Mr. Tambuwal, to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay. .
Mr. Wabara also asked the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to review the composition of the Campaign Council and other advisory appointments to make it inclusive.
Party leaders were urged to match words with deeds and, where commitments are made, to honor them unconditionally.
Mr. Wabara also assured that the BoT will forward some of the recommendations and appropriate measures to the party's NEC in due course.
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