It appears that the days of Iyorchia Ayu as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be numbered as indications have emerged that the Presidential Candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is in support of his removal.

A well-placed chieftain of the party, Katch Ononuju dropped indications that Atiku is ready to sacrifice Ayu in a bid to have a peaceful party which will boost his chances of winning the February 2023 presidential poll.

“From my own insider information, the candidate wants Mr Ayu to resign but there are hogs in the party who are telling them, ‘Ayu, don’t resign’. I don’t know why. The candidate wants Mr Ayu to leave so that he could have a peaceful party to go to the election,” Ononuju said Thursday while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.

“If Atiku keeps saying he is a unifier, let him now unify the party by taking decisions and also acting to aid the southerners in this issue of inclusion,” he added.

He said Ayu is the reason for the current internal implosion of the party. “If he (Ayu) stays, he divides the party; if he stays, the party could lose. If he stays, the party implodes with the staying put.”

Ononuju said the agitation for a southerner to replace Ayu is beyond Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, but a collective demand by the southern caucus of the PDP who are against the idea of northerners occupying the three top positions of the party – Atiku (Adamawa State), Ayu (Benue State); as well as the Board of Trustees Chairman, Walid Jibrin (Nasarawa State).



However, the national chairman of the party has insisted that he won’t step down till after his four-year single term.

To this, Ononuju said, “If he (Ayu) goes, we have mechanisms, we’ve had chairmen who have left without completing their four-year term. The person (Uche Secondus) he replaced didn’t complete his four-year term. “He should understand the way he came is also the door he will go through. He should understand that our party is that way.

“Right now, we believe he is overstayed his welcome. So, politely, as members of the same party, so that he doesn’t continue to stay there and continue to call our governors children, he should simply just go away and let us sort ourselves.”

According to him, the agitation for a southern national chairman is an issue of inclusion, adding that the government of Atiku could be fraught with nepotism should he win the presidential election.
Source: https://matrixliveng.com/ground-shifts-under-ayu-as-atiku-abubakar-supports-calls-for-party-chairmans-resignation/

Yes he should resign, coz he is not fit.
Atiku can compensate him if he eventually wins, which I don't pray for, as obidient child

After the convention that produced Atiku, he called Tambuwale the hero of the convention, he said he had a sigh of relief, the moment Tambuwale whispered to him that he is stepping down for Atiku.
That is self an indictment, as it shows he was not neutral all about

Katch Onanuju; that foolish man who likes to speak all the English in the world but always ends up saying nothing..

No be only Katch na Kollect.

All for wike

This Ayu Nigga has overstayed his welcome.

He should resign immediately.

Wike the slayer

Toneypen247:
Wike na force, but Obi na the great force to reckon with.

Even Wike lulé, Tambuwale is a bigger force than Wike, but he doesn't make noise

That's cool

Oga Wike hmm

Atiku who was the cause of the Problem will do anything to save his own neck

It is the turn of the South to produce the Presidential Candidate and Okowa Chaired one of the meetings at which that was agreed In Asaba

Wike will win

abobote:

Even Wike lulé, Tambuwale is a bigger force than Wike, but he doesn't make noise

Tambuwal is no bigger force. He should have tested his popularity instead of chickening out like a toddler. How can someone who fearfully stepped down be a bigger force than someone that came second and would have even one. Unless you don't know what you're typing about