PDP CRISIS : CALL FOR AYU'S RESIGNATION IS UNCALLED FOR. . . all state chapters sent in names, except Rivers, for the Campaign Council. . . ATIKU

By Mike ALADENIKA.

The Presidential candidate of the  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described the new twist of event in the crisis facing the Nation's main opposition party, PDP as an uncalled for and devoid of national colouration. 

Atiku, in his press statement, the convocation of  "very senior and influential members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to address the press and, amongst other things, declared that they are withdrawing, forthwith, from the Presidential Campaign Council set up by our party to judiciously plan and prosecute the general elections set to hold in February and March 2023, on the one hand; and reiterated their earlier calls for the resignation or removal from office of the national chairman of our party, Senator Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, on the other hand is very disturbing."

"The people that addressed the press must have their reasons for withdrawing from the Presidential Campaign Council, and I will not speculate as to what those reasons may be. Personally, I am quite surprised with this withdrawal because,

as I have been informed by officials of our party, apart from the  Rivers State chapter of the PDP, all the remaining states of the federation submitted names of people who they wanted included in the Presidential Campaign Council."

On the calls for the resignation  from office, of our national chairman, the Waziri Adamawa said "I must reiterate what I have said severally in public and in private;  the decision for Dr. Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office is personal to Dr. Ayu and, neither I nor anyone else can make that decision for him.  As to the calls for the removal of Dr. Ayu from office, however, I will state that, as a committed democrat and firm believer in the rule of law and democratic tenets, and our party being one set up, organized and regulated by law and our constitution, it is my absolute belief that every thing that we do in our party must be done in accordance with, and conformity to, the law and our constitution."

If Dr. Ayu is to be removed from office, it must be done in accordance with the laws that set out the basis for such removal. In any event, you will all recall that the very body that is empowered by law to initiate this removal from office,

has already passed a vote of confidence in him.".

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