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By Chukwudi Nweje
A group within the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the South West Forum of PDP Stakeholders for Justice, has insisted that the only way the party will win the 2023 presidential election is for the embattled National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu to resign.
A statement yesterday, jointly signed by Gani Taofik and Banji Okunomo, former publicity secretary of the Lagos State and Ondo State chapters of the party, added that Ayu can write his name in the party’s annals as a hero by stepping down and noted that the embattled chairman’s resignation will not only restore peace in the party but will also propel PDP’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
They said, “Assuming Dr. Ayu in his own wisdom, genuinely chose and believed in the emergence of a Northern Presidential Candidate for the PDP and went further to acknowledge Gov Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as the ‘Hero of Democracy’ following his withdrawal from the Presidential race to pave way for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the party’s national convention, it is our take, that Dr Ayu should indeed go further to logically and wisely conclude the process that would guarantee the emergence of Atiku as the next president of Nigeria by making other possible sacrifices necessary to achieve that goal. Indeed, this is why and when Dr. Ayu himself will be more celebrated as PDP’s ‘Hero of Democracy’ rather than clogging the Party’s wheel of Progress and creating avoidable crisis for the party.”
The group warned the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to be wary of the ill and reactionary advice that could cost the party victory at the polls.
They further said, “We will not forget to Admonish our candidate, the next president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to be wary of the ill and reactionary advice of traditional moles, who are insistent on offering opinions capable of jeopardizing the chance God has opened for the PDP in the emerging dispensation. Nigerians are indeed awaiting the PDP as the actual potent alternative government, and God forbids, if this opportunity skips us, Nigerians may never again associate with the PDP again. We call for immediate restoration of sanity, confidence, inclusiveness, and oneness in the Party as a stitch in time saves nine.”
The group reiterated its support for Govs Nyesom Wike and Seyi Makinde of Rivers and Oyo State respectively and the former PDP Deputy National Chairman, South West, Chief Olabode George who insist on Ayu resignation.
“We, the above-named Forum of the Party, wish to affirm our support for Gov Makinde, corroborated by the doggedness of the Gov Wike and the wisdom of the Chief Olabode Georges, as a lasting panacea for peace and eventual victory of our party at the 2023 Presidential election,” they noted.
