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PDP Crisis: Dino Melaye Reveals When Ayu Would Resign As Party Chairman

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Sep 6, 2022.

Dino Melaye Reveals When Ayu Would Resign As Party Chairman

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the former Senator representing Kogi West and spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dino Melaye, has disclosed that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, would resign when Atiku emerges president in 2023.

This online media platform reports that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, who has been having a running battle with Atiku, has insisted on the resignation of Ayu as a condition for peace in the opposition party.

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Speaking to Leadership, Dino Melaye accused members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of clamoring for Ayu’s sack.

He stated that moves to force Ayu’s resignation before the 2023 presidential election is dead on arrival.

While claiming that the APC wants to cause a constitutional crisis in the PDP, Dino Melaye revealed that Ayu would not be chairman by the time Atiku emerges as president-elect.

He said, “The voluntary resignation of Ayu, if we are to go by the constitution of the party, it states that once the chairman is removed, he must be replaced by somebody from the zone, and by hierarchy and procedure, if Ayu resigns today, the deputy national chairman, north, by constitutional provisions is the one that is supposed to step in.

And what they are clamouring for is that the north should not be chairman and north should not be the presidential candidate, but it has happened before where a northerner was the chairman and Good luck Jonathan became president, but immediately Jonathan was sworn in, then he was removed and (Dr. Okwesilieze) Nwodo was brought in to replace the northerner, and that scenario is the same thing that we should follow.

“We are not saying Ayu will be chairman by the time Atiku emerges as president-elect. The moment he becomes president-elect, and I have said before – that the governors of PDP made Ayu national chairman, and that is why Ayu was a consensus candidate.

“At the time they were making Ayu national chairman, did they think that Ayu is from Imo? Or did they think that Ayu is from Edo state? Everybody knew that Ayu is a northerner when he was made the chairman, so let us not just because of personal interest try to create problems where there is none.”

He stated there is no issue in the main opposition party, adding that the PDP campaign council would be unveiled soon.

Speaking further, the former lawmaker stated that the issue between Wike and Atiku is a minor disagreement “between one or two members of the party,” which is expected in a democracy.

According to him, the crisis between the Rivers governor and the PDP presidential candidate is under control, and in a matter of days, it will be over.

He described Wike as a responsible man, stressing that the governor is yet to say that he is not going to support PDP.

He recalled that Wike, during the convention, told Nigerians that he would support whoever emerged as the presidential candidate of the party.

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“I can assure you that there is no cause for alarm that PDP is going to win the next general election and Atiku Abubakar is going to be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria come 2023,” he said.

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