Okwesilieze Nwodo, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, rejected the demand that Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman, quit.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Governor Nyesom Wike and his allies have persisted in calling on the lawmaker who was born in Benue to quit immediately.
In the interest of fairness, equity, and justice, Wike and friends claimed that the National Chairman and the party’s presidential candidate cannot be from the same region.
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However, the PDP Board of Trustees’ (BoT) reconciliation committee suggested that Ayu step down if the party wins the presidential election in February in its report to the party leadership on Friday.
Nwodo said that the request for Ayu’s resignation is regrettable and comes at the wrong moment during an appearance on Channels Television on Friday.
Ayu’s resignation will be demanded months before the general elections in 2023, according to the former PDP national chairman and member of the BoT, who noted that this will be a grave error.
Nwodo added that Ayu ought to be let to oversee the party’s campaigns because he is familiar with it and has begun preparing for its success in 2023.
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He said: “Calling for justice, fairness, and equity at any time is right. The situation in our party right now is a call for the resignation of the party chairman as a means of balancing North and South power in our party.
“At the meeting of the Board of Trustees today, a committee on reconciliation which I’m a member submitted our report to the NWC.
“The Board, in its wisdom, felt that to ask the chairman to resign at this time is like shooting your general at the point of going to war.
“The chairman of the party is the person who leads the party to the campaign for the election.
“Therefore, it is inauspicious to ask him to step down at this time and the person who will come will take time to understand the build-up we had in the past five months.
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“It is difficult for us to change an executive we just elected in the middle of the campaign. Let us wait and win the presidency and Ayu will go.”
Nwodo declared that if the party’s nominee for president, Atiku Abubakar, wins the election, Ayu will step down from his position.
Timing, according to the former PDP national chairman, is a vital element in politics.
He added: “Of course, in politics, that is a great big mistake. Political expediency is tied up with the timing. You have to time whatever you want to do in politics to resonate with the result you want.
“We believe that once we have a President in place, there is no way the chairman can remain in that zone.”
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