Why Ayu shouldn’t resign

The decision by sure forces for the resignation of the nationwide chairman of the Individuals’s Democratic Occasion (PDP) Senator Iyorchia Ayu isn’t altruistic. It’s primarily borne out of ego-tripping.

The 2023 basic election is about six months away. The electioneering interval will start a couple of weeks from now. No severe political get together that desires to wrestle energy from the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Authorities needs to be speaking about change within the management of the nationwide working committee (NWC) of the get together at this second.

What’s even the bone of rivalry for these agitating for the resignation or elimination of Ayu because the nationwide chairman of the get together? Has he dedicated any fraudulent act since he assumed the management of the get together lower than a yr in the past?

The structure of the get together clearly stipulates that within the occasion that the nationwide chairman resigns or is eliminated, his successor ought to come from the identical geopolitical zone as him.

Have these clamouring for the shift of the place to the southern components of Nigeria take cognizance of the structure of the get together? If Ayu is eliminated and his successor comes from the South, will it not have a extreme hostile constitutional impact on the get together going into the overall election?.

Ought to the structure of the get together be by-passed or be circumvented to fulfill the bloated ego of these agitating for the elimination of Ayu?

He was elected for a four-year time period by the nationwide conference of the Occasion. He was not appointed as a caretaker committee chairman. He’s a duly elected and substantive chairman of the Occasion identical to the president, governors and different elective positions had been elected for a periodic time period.

In any case, what goal will the elimination of Ayu serve to the get together at this close to electioneering interval? Simply to therapeutic massage the bruised ego of some disgruntled Occasion members?

Even when Ayu made a promise to resign if the North produced the presidential candidate of the Occasion, he has not dedicated any civil or legal offence by reneging on his earlier promise. Prevailing circumstances could have necessitated his change of thoughts.

In 2007, Ahmadu Alli, from Kogi State (North Central) was the nationwide chairman of the Occasion. The presidential candidate of the Occasion on the time, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, was additionally from the North. There was no agitation or clamour that Ahmadu ought to resign as a result of Yar’Adua was additionally from the North.

Alli solely resigned after the election when Yar’Adua had gained the election and brought his place because the president of the nation. That situation needs to be replicated on the present state of affairs within the PDP.

If former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Occasion, wins the election and takes workplace as president, then the nationwide chairmanship place needs to be rotated again to the southern a part of the nation. In a contest there are two potentialities. Victory. Defeat.

What if Atiku loses the overall election, would the nationwide chairmanship of the Occasion be given again to Ayu if he resigns now?

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, was not the one presidential aspirant that contested in opposition to Atiku. Whereas different aspirants had taken their defeat of their strides with equanimity, Wike has remained implacable.

That he contested for the presidential primaries and got here second didn’t imply that the vice presidential place ought to have been mechanically reserved for him.

Each presidential candidate has the prerogative to decide on his operating mate. Late Dr Alex Ekwueme was not imposed on President Shehu Shagari, however slightly Shagari selected him as an alternative of the so-called extra standard late Chief Ok.O Mbadiwe.

Late Abubakar Rimi was not imposed on President Olusegun Obasanjo. President Obasanjo selected Atiku as an alternative of him. Dr Peter Odili was not imposed on President Yar’ Adua in 2007. Quite, President Yar’Adua on his personal volition selected Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

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Towards the foregoing background, why ought to that of Atiku be totally different? The tantrums of Governor Wike since he misplaced the presidential and vice presidential nominations has justified why Atiku selected Ifeanyi Okowa, as his most well-liked operating mate.

The Occasion has not offended Wike in any method by denying him sure advantages this time round. Wike has benefited from the Occasion way over the Occasion has benefited from him.

There are literally thousands of get together members who’ve made extra sacrifices for the Occasion than Wike however these unlucky members haven’t had the privilege to even be elected as councillors beneath the platform of the Occasion since 1998.

The nationwide chairman shouldn’t have referred to some recalcitrant members as “kids or boys,” however it’s additionally impolitic and uncharitable for Governor Wike to have mentioned that Ayu was introduced from the gutters to turn into the nationwide chairman of the get together.

How might Wike discuss with a person who was the Senate President (quantity 3 citizen of the nation) way back to 1992 and who was additionally minister twice as a person from the gutters?

The place was Wike in 1992? That Ayu was impeached as Senate President and eliminated as a minister didn’t diminish him as a politician. A president has the prerogative to take away a minister at any time limit.

If somebody like Ayu could possibly be referred as a person from the gutters, what then will Wike name his political appointees? Wike’s tantrums have gotten nauseating. I feel it’s excessive time that the Occasion allowed him to do as he needs.

An implacable crying little one, when left alone, would cease the crying by himself. Wike has boasted that he would expose sure folks earlier than the general public sooner or later. What’s the brand new factor that he would inform us? Is there something new beneath the solar? Is Wike totally different from the those who he desires to reveal? Wike ought to defend his sword and negotiate his political future with the Occasion hierarchy.

Maduako, a social commentator, writes from Abuja