•It is too late to remove Ayu —Melaye

•Says governors, not Atiku responsible for PDP crisis

•Alleges APC involvement

•Says Wike won’t dump party

By Kunle Oderemi And Taiwo Amodu


THERE were indications on Sunday that governors elected on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have been asked to prevail on the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu to consider resigning from office as a compromise over the raging feud in the party on power sharing.

The plan was said to be part of the efforts made at the weekend by some key stakeholders in the party to unite and strengthen the main opposition party ahead of the presidential poll.

But a spokesman of the Atiku campaign team, Senator Dino Melaye, said Ayu would not quit, asserting that the governors were instrumental in Ayu becoming national chairman.

A source however, said the move to drag the governors to prevail on Ayu to quit was a follow-up to the meeting held by the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his allies, including Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State in the bid to reconcile the two camps that had been at loggerheads after the choice of a running mate by Atiku.

According to sources, the face-off between the two camps is one of the factors delaying the constitution of PDP Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 general election.

“It has been technically agreed that Ayu should step aside. But whether he will agree to resign or not depends on him,” another source said.

Virtually all the 13 PDP governors are split over the simmering crisis that has engulfed the party, with a few of them openly backing Wike over his agitation.

The source claimed that history was about to repeat itself as he claimed that the Third Republic senator ignored all entries that he should resign as the president of the Senate, following a plot to impeach him during the agitation for the de-annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief MKO Abiola.

He was eventually impeached by the Senate during the military-induced political crisis.

The source added that the current faceoff is also about unfair power equation along the North/South structure in the PDP and need to allow the spirit of inclusiveness as contained in PDP Constitution to prevail.

But a source said the possibility of the deputy national chairman (South), Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja stepping in as PDP acting national chairman might not be automatic if Ayu bows to the current pressure on him.

This, the source said, was because the position could go to any of the three zones in the South for strategic reasons in the ongoing build-up to the general election.

“The acting chairman could come from the any of the geopolitical zones in the South if Ayu resigns since PDP wants to win convincingly in the general election. This is an unusual time for the party,” the source added.

Meanwhile, an elder of the party told the Nigerian Tribune that members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of PDP plan to meet again within the next one week, as part of the ongoing efforts to end the protracted power struggle between the two blocs.

A member of the BoT, who craved to remain anonymous, said the meeting could come up earlier depending on further developments on the raging crisis.

The chairman of the BoT, Senator Jibril Wakil first broke news about moves to reconcile Atiku and Wike due to the fury expressed by the Rivers governor over the outcome of the PDP presidential primary, in which he came second.

The gulf widened when Atiku picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State by Atiku as running mate, but the reconciliation plan announced by Senator Wakil could materialise due to lack of compromise by the two camps.

The party initiated a fresh reconciliation move under  the leadership of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State, but the initiative met a brick wall, as the two camps were divided on whether their meeting should be held in Abuja or Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Though Fintri led other members of the Atiku camp to Port Harcourt for a meeting with Wike, the crisis became exacerbated due to altercations between leading members of the camps.

The brickbat led to Atiku cautioning his supporters and other stakeholders in PDP to give peace a chance and do not allow detractors to infiltrate their ranks.

Barely 24 hours after his advice, Atiku and Wike met in London last Friday with a few of their close allies in attendance on the way out of the seeming logjam.

However, amid speculation that Atiku has reached a deal with Wike, on the removal of the embattled national chairman, one of  the spokespersons of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Senator Melaye, has urged party faithful to perish the thought.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune at the weekend, Senator Melaye maintained that the PDP national chairman would not be sacrificed on the eve of a general election.

The spokesperson of the Atiku campaign team accused the governors of acting in bad faith as he noted that the party national chairman was a creation of the PDP governors.

He said: “I want to start by saying that the PDP Governors were the ones who introduced and picked Iyorchia Ayu.

“You cannot give birth to a child in the morning and come back in the afternoon and disown the child, you are not going to be a good parents. We didn’t choose Ayu; the governors did and that is why Ayu was the consensus candidate. Did they field anybody against Ayu  from the South during the convention? All of them including Governor Wike endorsed Ayu on convention day.

“Not alone did they endorse Ayu, they funded that convention!  “So, how can you in December give us a product, in June, July, you want the product to leave?

“When they brought Ayu as a consensus candidate, that was the only office that was not contested on the day of convention, that was the only office that had the consensus of all the Governors whether South or North.

“Did they forget at the time they were fielding Ayu that Ayu was a Northerner? Or did they just suddenly realize that Ayu is a Northerner?

“More importantly, you can’t  be talking of Ayu leaving when we have not won the presidential election. Is it the  cart before the horse  or the horse  before the cart? “

Melaye described as unfounded, a claim that there was an agreement before the election of the party National Working Committee (NWC),  that Ayu would resign from his exalted seat as national chairman,if a Northerner picked the presidential ticket of the main opposition party.

“No, there was no such agreement.  So, if that kind of arrangement happened and we did not win the election, God forbids this time around, you remove your chairman and you did not win the election, does that make any sense? So, it is after we have a president elect that you can now start saying the President and the party chairman cannot come from the same region of the country. That makes  more sense.

“You are going to throw us into constitutional crisis because Ayu was not appointed, he was elected at a convention, anything you do to Ayu now will create a constitutional crisis for PDP and these are all coming from the ruling   party  trying to create confusion and legal tussles that will have negative effects on our election and we will not allow it “

Melaye further dismissed a claim that the Rivers governor would eventually dump the party for the ruling APC, noting that having given his words at the venue of the presidential convention, on no account would Wike defect to the APC.

“I say it with every blood in my vein that Wike is a PDP man; he is not going to leave PDP and he is going to work with Atiku Abubakar because I know that Wike is a man of honour. He is a man of his words and I was live and present at the convention, where Wike held the microphone and said he is a PDP man 100 percent and that whoever emerges (here today) as the presidential candidate, that he is going to support the person. I know Wike is 59 going to 60 years old and he is a mature man; he is not going to eat his words,” Melaye said.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-govs-may-prevail-on-ayu-to-resign/

Wike is bigger than PDP, he don succesfully sack two party chairmen and is on course to sack the third one.
If the fourth one doesnt do his bidding, he will sack him again

Cool.

Every time Wike, Wike , Wike. Is Ifeanyi Okowa not a PDP gov? Does he not have friends in the PDP govs forum that can back him and neutralize the noise from Wike?
Ifeanyi Okowa should be heard or seen making good moves to counter and put Wike on check. He should summon fellow govs to rally round him and save Atiku, Ayu and the PDP from the clutches of this Wike guy.

Their headaches. Obi has no concern with this. If they like they can kill themselves

Bodmum:
I'll be thinking about it.

Okowa na light weight na. Him no go even deliver him LGA come 2023

PDP National Chairman Sen. Iyorchia Ayu MUST RESIGN

dre11:



•It is too late to remove Ayu —Melaye

•Says governors, not Atiku responsible for PDP crisis

•Alleges APC involvement

•Says Wike won’t dump party



https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-govs-may-prevail-on-ayu-to-resign/

Nlfpmod

Michelle70:
Wike is bigger than PDP, he don succesfully sack one party chairman and is on course to sack the second one.
If the third one doesnt do his bidding, he will sack him again

No be only one he sacked now. Na mind sack Modu Sheriff now.

Somewhere at north

NigeriaIsGreat:
YOU CANNOT SILENCE ME WITH TRIBALISM OR NEPOTISM!!!

REPACKAGING PETER OBI?

If no be say person get strong mind na so dem wan repackage Obi give person.

Obi of 13months doctors strike in Anambra. 13!
Obi of Akwuzu SARS. Unalloyed ter**rorism
Obi that did not employ teachers in Anambra for 8years
Obi that did not develope Awka in 8 years
Obi that did not employ civil servants in Anambra for 8years
Obi that his driver was caught with 250m cash in Lagos
Obi that does not own any investment in Anambra, no supermarket, no warehouse

Obi of massive kid*napping.
Obi that ordered the ma*ssacre of arm*less MASSOB protesters in 2006 & 2013 and had their dead bodies thrown into the Ezu River.
Obi of 6months Anambra State Univ strike.
Obi of 7 years unpaid salaries for State Water Board workers. 7years. 260 of them died.

Obi of Pandora papers. Opening secret businesses abroad with his kid's name while he was governor. Dem catch am red handed

Obi of 7years no LGA election. 7years!
Obi of no IGR growth.
Obi of no signature infrastructure. Non!
Obi anti-infrastructure.
Obi wey carry state money put for family business.

Obi importer of groceries for over 30years driving down naira value. He Couldn't metamorphose into production like Dangote , BUA, Adeleke etc
Revd Barr Christian Nwachukwu

Nobody is trying to silence you, most of what you listed here has been debunked by Obi long ago. Vote your agbado in peace and leave sane Nigerians alone to vote for Obi. Simple

Senator Ayu is already out. HE Atiku can not risk having HE Wike work against him. Ayu promised to step down once a Northerner emerges as PDP flagbearer.

My thought is that Sen. Ayu will decamp to APC to join his age-long political associate, Asiwaju Tinubu

Lagosfinder:
"It was I with Bola Tinubu and other senators like Martins Kuye because we had no party exco, so, we took over and united the party. We had leaders like Baba Ajasin, Olu Falae, Shehu Yar’Adua, Odumegwu Ojukwu, Abubakar Rimi and others.

We mobilized and put together a very strong party under the then leadership of the National Assembly because we had no party exco. We went to Jos, had an open, free and fair contest. Abiola emerged and Nigerians voted heavily for him.

So, I didn’t see any reason why that election was nullified. So I refused to support it. So an interim government was unnecessary. I stood on the position that Abiola should be sworn in as President and was never going to betray him. That was my position.

I was ready to sacrifice my position as Senate President because it was immaterial. What is the use of being Senate President under a dictatorship? I’m happy about the struggles we put in place.

After the struggle, Bola Tinubu joined NADECO and fought in his own way. I joined G9, G18 and G34 under the leadership of former Vice President Ekwueme and we fought."

Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, PDP National Chairman in an interview published by Vanguard Newspapers

If only HE Atiku had kept his word he gave Wike to make him VP. He worked himself into this crisis and I know HE Wike camp will not stop at sacking Ayu. They will ask for more concessions.
check my signature for freebies!

issokay

Their confusion is for the benefit of the OBIdients

Whatever they do with PDP is their f*cking business. My joy with all these is that wike was served breakfast after all the noise and gragra and the south has learnt a hard lesson that disunity amongst Dem gives the north opportunities to do whatever they like and get away with it. Thank God Peter Obi saw all those shitss coming and used his head. Today he is one of the favourite to win the election.

Him don get another job?

ok

K

Wike the move is on.
Obi 2023

NigeriaIsGreat:
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW PETER OBI CABINET WHEN HE WAS THE GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW POLITICALLY...

*LOOK AT TINUBU's CABINET AS GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE..

*LAI MOHAMMED* Chief of Staff from Kwara.

*YEMI OSINBANJO,* Attorney General from Ogun.

*WALE EDUN*,Finance Commissioner from Ogun.

*DELE ALAKE* Commissioner for Information from Ekiti

*RAUF AREGBESOLA* Commissioner for Works from Osun State.

*BEN AKABUEZE* Commissioner for Budget and Planning from Anambra State.

*FEMI LANLEHIN, SA* from Oyo State.

*AUTHUR WORREY* Commissioner for Lands from Delta State.

*HON. JAMES ABIODUN FALAKE*, third term Federal House of Representatives member, Representing Ikeja Federal Constituency - From Kogi State.

To name a few.

*For the eight years that he ruled Lagos*
He hired several guys to work with him. Apart from using them to work in his government, he also groomed them politically.

*Twelve years down the line* , see where those Tinubu guys are today -

1. PROF YEMI OSINBANJO, SAN was Tinubu's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
He is today, Nigeria's Vice President.

2. *RAUF AREGBESOLA* was Tinubu's Commissioner for Works. Today he is a Minister after serving 8 years as Governor of Osun State.

3. *"BABATUNDE RAJI FASHIOLA SAN* was Tinubu's Chief of Staff. Today he is a Minister of works after 8 years as governor of Lagos State.

4. *ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED* was Tinubu's first Chief of Staff and Commissioner. Today, he is a Minister of Information.

5. *BABATUNDE FOWLER* was appointed by Tinubu as Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service. He was the immediate past Federal Inland Revenue Service Executive Chairman in our country.

7. *SUNDAY DARE,* was SA/ COS to Tinubu, today he is a Minister for sports.

8. *BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU* was Tinubu's Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, he is now Governor of Lagos State.

*At the National Assembly* there are countless "Tinubu boys" who have occupied and are still occupying seats till today including N0 4 citizen of Nigeria, *Speaker, House of Reps*

Since 1999, the Tinubu camp has produced almost 98% of the members of the National Assembly from Lagos State. Forget politics, this man is a political enigma. Rewind to 1999, I am sure most of us have forgotten the names of the People who were elected Governors when he was elected governor too, some of them have gone into political extinction or gasping for breath politically.

Indeed, most of them are no longer relevant today.

Tinubu has not only managed to remain extremely relevant, he has continued to control Lagos politics 100%. Not only that, he manages to carry his boys along and today they occupy critical positions in our national life.

Take it or leave it, Tinubu is today, Nigeria's most powerful politician. It didn't just happen by chance. He worked very hard for it. Very very hard. The hallmark of a true and Born leader is not just the ability to rule well but also the ability to nurture and groom associates.

Tinubu is not like some other politicians in Nigeria, He is a goal getter.....

There is nothing he touches that doesn't excel.

- *NADECO*, He fought the Military to a Standstill.

- *AD excelled,*

- *ACN excelled* and

- *APC is excelling.....*

- *TVC* is one of the top TV stations in Nigeria.

*The Nation* is one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria, thereby creating Employment to many people.

- *He makes people,*

- *He follows up on them.*

- *He forgives routinely,*

- *He fights to teach not to kill*

- *He is a Pillar of Democracy,*

- *Mentor of great men*

*Please,Tell me* or Name a Politician that has this Records since more than 3 Decades ago.

*J-A-G-A-B-A-N is a great man politically...... is A JAGABAN OF NIGERIA ��

You must be out of your damn mind if you think that I will read all this crap

Forget it. Wike na don!

wike that scuttle our zoning plan in Cross River that his bossom friend becomes PDP flag bearer is thesame calling out Atiku up n down. It serve him right