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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee members are divided over the clamour for the removal of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
The PDP has fixed a meeting for Thursday, 8th June in Abuja to discuss salient issues including Iyorchia Ayu’s removal.
Some NEC members from the South argued that Ayu’s removal was the only way out of the lingering crisis confronting the party, the chairman’s supporters said Ayu would not step aside at this critical time when the PDP was preparing for the election.
The emergence of Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as Vice presidential candidate of the party has thrown the PDP into crisis as some members wanted Rivers state governor to serve as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Meanwhile, the loyalists of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike had been demanding Ayu’s resignation, stating that the presidential candidate should not hail from the same region as the party chairman; and the Board of Trustees chairman.
Though the PDP set up a panel to resolve the crisis, Wike, supported by three other governors, had continued to insist on Ayu’s removal.
Resisting the pressure to leave office, the party chair vowed to stay till the end of his four-year tenure. He also dismissed those demanding his removal as youngsters who had little knowledge about the formation of the PDP.