Wike speaks on Jibrin’s resignation says Atiku assured him Ayu would vacate workplace

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has rejected Walid Jibrin’s resignation as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) Board of Trustees.

Mr Wike disclosed this in Port Harcourt on Thursday whereas commissioning a Campus of the Rivers State College within the Ahoada East Native Authorities Space of the state, in line with a report by NCIR

Mr Wike who was reacting to the resignation of Mr Jibrin, insisted that the chairman of the social gathering, Iyorchia Ayu, should relinquish his workplace for the social gathering to have peace.

The governor mentioned moreover Mr Ayu promising to resign if a northerner is nominated the social gathering’s presidential candidate within the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, who emerged the social gathering’s candidate, additionally assured him Mr Ayu will go away workplace.

Mr Wike mentioned Atiku instructed him a day after the presidential main of the social gathering when he (Atiku) visited him to hunt his assist.

“Once we completed our conference on a Saturday to Sunday, the candidate of the social gathering (Atiku) got here to see me in my home in Abuja on Monday round 10:30 a. m. The candidate instructed me: ‘I would like us to work collectively’ after which he mentioned, ‘Look, Ayu should go’.

“I mentioned why? He mentioned as a result of when a candidate comes from the north, the chairman will come from the south. And I’m saying, implement what you instructed me. What offence have I dedicated? It has nothing to do with Wike; it has to do with integrity.

“I problem the presidential candidate to disclaim this. If he denies this, I’ll go additional to say so many issues to Nigerians as a result of sufficient is sufficient.”

Mr Ayu has been beneath stress from a gaggle of governors and a few former governors of the social gathering led by Mr Wike, to step down for a southerner.

Mr Wike’s group had been complaining in regards to the imbalance within the social gathering management as Mr Ayu and the presidential candidate of the social gathering, Mr Atiku, and the heads of main organs of the social gathering are all from the north.

However Mr Ayu had in a BBC interview described these calling for his resignation as “youngsters.”

“Once we began the PDP, we didn’t know these boys, they’re youngsters, they don’t understand how we based the social gathering. We won’t agree with one individual to come back and destroy our social gathering.”

The PDP has been enmeshed in disaster after the social gathering’s presidential main final 12 months.

Mr Wike and Atiku have been at loggerheads after the presidential main the place the previous vice chairman defeated the Rivers governor.

The feud additional deepened after Atiku ignored the PDP committee’s suggestion of Mr Wike because the social gathering’s vice presidential candidate.

The disaster rocking the social gathering, nevertheless, entered a special section when a gaggle of social gathering members led by Mr Wike demanded the resignation of the social gathering nationwide chairman to appropriate what they described as “imbalance” within the social gathering management construction.