PDP Crisis: Ayu Won’t Leave – Osadolor, Lamido Tell Wike, Others To Sheathe Their Swords

The Peoples Democratic Party‘s (PDP), Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor has come out to say that the party’s national chairman Iyorchia Ayu would not resign.

According to him, the party needs the national chairman at this junction to lead it to victory in the forthcoming election.

Naija News learnt that Osadolor was reported to have said that at this crucial time, anyone who nurtured the idea of removing the national chairman to temper with the current executive as constituted doesn’t mean well for the party and the presidential candidate.

He said Ayu won’t be used as a sacrificial lamb to pacify the ego of anyone, especially not considering the fact he is very competent and result driven.

This is against the backdrop that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and four other aggrieved governors of the PDP have asked the national chairman to resign because they claimed its unfair to the South geo-political zone for both its party’s presidential candidate and the national chairman to come from the north.

Naija News reports that these aggrieved governors of the party who have refused to join the party’s presidential campaign council on this premise have been appealed to by the party leadership to make peace and join the PCC for the greater good of victory in 2023.

But all have fallen on deaf ears as they insist that Ayu should go or they should be counted out of the campaign for the party’s presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar.

Meanwhile, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), Sule Lamido, has urged the five aggrieved governors (Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, Oyo State, Seyi Makinde Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Benue State, Samuel Ortom), to lay their sword and give peace a chance.

He said they should remember that their tenures would soon be over in due course and also have it in mind that they will become former governors one day and others will succeed them.

Lamido stated that “life never stops. Some prophets passed on and life continued. Only God is permanent and continuous,” Punch Newspaper reported.

On his part, a former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Hazeem Gbolarumi, has also called on Wike and the rest to make peace and support Atiku to win the 2023 general election.

According to him, many Nigerians both of voting age and under, are eager for Atiku to take over from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) come 2023, so it will be in their best interest to support him because whether or not they do he will still win.

Gbolarumi pointed out that he knows Wike and the other governors can not leave the party because he(Wike) has never defected to any party and has really laboured for the PDP, so his advice would be for them to join the party’s presidential aspirant.

The Oyo PDP chieftain noted that he knows some of them are not contesting for any office at the coming election, but for the love of the party and for the sake of their candidates vying for various positions on the party’s platform, they should lay their swords down.

“I know that they can’t leave the PDP because somebody like Wike has never defected from the party and he has laboured so much for the PDP. I will advise him to join Atiku. Even others cannot also leave the party. Those who are not contesting elections among these governors have candidates they are supporting on the platform of the PDP,” he said.

Gbolarumi, however, said “the best thing for them to do is to join the PDP to win this election. However, God has destined Atiku to win the presidency this time. But if they refuse to join him, Atiku will win without them,” the Punch Newspaper reports.

This article was originally published on Naija News