The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has finally revealed the only option available for the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu.
Speaking in Ibadan on Wednesday, Atiku said; “there is nothing any individual can do to change the outlook of the National Working Committee of the PDP.
“The PDP is a party where there are laid down rules and regulations. What Governor Makinde is asking for is possible only when we have amended our party’s constitution. As things stand today no single individual has the power to tamper with the NWC of the party. Doing so will be illegal and it will be against our rules in the party.
“Nigerians will not trust us to govern by the tenets of rule of law if we take such arbitrary action against our own party,”.
Recall that Atiku and Wike have been at loggerheads since the Party’s presidential primaries that produced Atiku as the Party’s flag-bearer. Wike alongside 4 other PDP governors are of the view that the Chairman of the Party and its Presidential Candidate cannot come from the same northern region as it was against the party’s zoning arrangement.
They have insisted that their support for Atiku can only begin when there is ‘fairness and equity’ in the party’s leadership structure.
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