PDP Crisis: Wike’s Camp Insists On Ayu’s Removal, To Produce Replacement From S/West

PDP Crisis: Wike’s Camp Insists On Ayu’s Removal, To Produce Replacement From S/West

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is under immense pressure from his loyalists following reports that he has yielded to the demand by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for the removal of the PDP National Chairman, Iyiochia Ayu.

 

According to Vanguard,  a number of agreements were arrived at after the face to face meeting between Atiku and Wike in London. Part of the agreement, it was learnt, was that Ayu should be given a dignified exit and accommodated in the new PDP government when it is formed.

 

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The Wike Camp equally extracted a commitment from Atiku to be allowed to produce Ayu’s replacement and that the person should be from the South West Zone.

 

It is however unclear if Atiku yielded to the demand by Wike’s camp to serve for a single term to allow for power to shift to the south to assuage  feeling of betrayal of southerners.

 

The Wike camp which outnumbered the Atiku camp two to one at the London meeting was also able to extract a commitment from the PDP candidate to produce the Senate President and some Principal officers of the National Assembly.

 

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