On Wednesday, Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, set terms for the resignation of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman.
According to him, Ayu’s resignation had to be handled in conformity with the party’s bylaws, policies, and procedures.
Atiku said: “We cannot do anything outside our constitution except if it is amended. We cannot do anything unless the laws are amended.
“Ayu must go through our constitution, rules, regulations, and our practice, otherwise we cannot give the kind of leadership Nigerians want.
“It is possible, it is achievable, we have done it before and we have started doing it again.”
Atiku made this announcement at the PDP Southwest stakeholders gathering, which was hosted in Ibadan’s well-known Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall of the University Teaching Hospital.
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He was responding to the region’s decision, which demanded that Ayu resigns at the meeting.
In order to win the upcoming general elections, Atiku advised PDP members not to let the controversy distract them from their hard work.
The message of the area, that Ayu must retire to make place for fairness and equity, has already been delivered to the party presidential candidate by Oyo state Governor Seyi Makinde.
Before the 2023 election, he claimed that the party’s structural difficulties needed to be resolved.
“If we want to unify Nigeria, we must unify PDP first. If we want government of national unity, it must reflect in PDP.
“If we want to restructure in Nigeria, we must restructure PDP first.
“Our presidential candidate is from North-East, our National Chairman is from North Central, the Director General of Atiku campaign, Aminu Tambuwal, is from the North-West, so the PDP National Chairman should step down now for peace to reign.”
The party’s Deputy National Chairman, North, Umar Damagum, asked members to devote themselves and work for the party’s success in the next elections while speaking on behalf of the National Chairman.
He said that Ibadan, the political hub of the South-West and all of Nigeria, was the reason the location of the meeting was specifically chosen.
Aminu Tambuwal, the head of the PDP Governors’ Forum, stated in his remarks that the meeting was a sign of good things to come and that the South-West would rejoin the PDP in 2023.
He was accompanied by a number of PDP candidates for governorship, including the former governors of Ondo, Osun, and Ekiti states, Olusegun Mimiko, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Ayodele Fayose, and Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja.
Alhaji Bala Mohammed, the governor of Bauchi State, and Senator Ademola Adeleke, the incoming governor of Osun State, were both in the party’s presidential candidate’s entourage.
