AS the crisis rocking the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is deepening, the loyalists of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike are demanding immediate resignation of its National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
According to the group, resignation of Iyorchi will serve as a condition to end the party’s infighting and support for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
However, Atiku has insisted that the Chairman should remain in office to lead his campaign for next year’s election after which he will quit, sources told The Nation.
To end the festering PDP crisis, party leaders have been appealing to Wike to embrace reconciliation and support Atiku in the best interest of the party.
The reconciliation mission is being anchored by former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, some ex-governors, and former ministers.
However, Wike and his strategists have insisted on their demand that Ayu must quit to give way for another Chairman from the south, according to sources within the party.
They maintained that Atiku should honour his promise that once the PDP presidential candidate emerges from the North, a Southerner will lead the party.
But Atiku’s camp claimed that Ayu can only step aside after the election.
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