Ayu Refuses To Be ‘Sacrificial Lamb’ As Atiku In Dilemma Over Wike’s Request

Indications emerged revealing that the Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, might not step down from workplace.

Naija Information stories that Ayu’s resignation was a part of calls for tabled earlier than the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his allies in London final week.

It was gathered that even when Ayu steps down from his place, one other particular person from the identical Northern area should take his place as prescribed by the PDP structure.

In line with the occasion’s structure, as soon as a nationwide chairman resigns his workplace, he have to be succeeded by a brand new candidate from the identical geopolitical zone.

This and different requests by Governor Wike, in keeping with sources, have positioned Atiku in a dilemma.

The Wike Camp, who additionally requested that Ayu be given a dignified exit and accommodated within the new PDP authorities when it’s fashioned in 2023, extracted a dedication from Atiku to be allowed to supply Ayu’s substitute from the South West Zone.

Talking on the disaster rocking the PDP, a former member of the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) advised Vanguard that Ayu had reiterated his resolve to not step down.

The supply stated: “Atiku might think about Wike’s calls for that Ayu ought to step down, however Ayu will resist the transfer for his resignation. He argues that he can not help Atiku and Okowa to turn out to be the presidential candidate and the operating mate, after which they can’t stand by him.

“He’s insisting that he can’t be the sacrificial lamb.

‘’This can be a dilemma for them. Ayu is insisting that Atiku and the PDP rattling Wike on requires his (Ayu’s) resignation, and if he doesn’t resign on the finish of the day, the Wike camp will take its subsequent step as regards their political future.”

Hazard And Threat

In the meantime, An ally of Atiku advised Vanguard that loyalists of the PDP presidential candidate had accused Wike of taking his grievances too far.

He, nonetheless, said that Atiku would possibly think about Wike’s request.

He stated: “There are lots of pursuits across the principal who don’t settle for Wike’s calls for. These pursuits round Atiku really feel that such request shouldn’t be coming in good religion, and so they consider that it’s harmful, dangerous, and dicey to tinker with the present formation of the occasion and the NWC only a few weeks to the final marketing campaign.”

Requested whether or not Atiku was disposed to Wike’s calls for, the supply stated: “Something that may make the occasion united is what he (Atiku) will go for, however on Wike’s request, I’ll say he (Atiku) is in a dilemma between these pursuits and what Wike is asking for.

“Let’s be sincere with ourselves, what Wike is asking for is excessive as a result of lots of these candidates you’re speaking about, the Ayu government introduced them in, and you can’t now say you wish to commerce them off.”