Keyamo slams PDP as divided ?????
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Labour and Employment Minister of State Festus Keyamo revels in the implosion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caused by its insistence on the North hanging on to power instead of rotating it as it is written in the party’s constitution.
Keyamo, spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), jabbed at the PDP in a tweet as news broke that APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu is benefitting from the PDP chaos.
“The PDP that’s in crises because of its inability to control its billowing umbrella gathers everyday and the first thing you hear them say is that they want to ‘rescue’ Nigeria; like a teenager whose legs cannot find the clutch of a car wanting to drive a trailer! ‘No be juju be that?”, Keyamo tweet on Wednesday night, per The PUNCH.
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike began the onslaught against the PDP cabal with agitation for National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu to step down for a Southerner, as all the top echelons of the party are occupied by Northerners.
Ayu vows to stay put. Atiku supports him.
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PDP bust in higher gear
The furore shifted into higher gear on Wednesday when 23 senior members of the PDP held a meeting in Wike’s home in Rivers and decided to withdraw from Atiku’s campaign, standing their ground to stay out until Ayu resigns.
Those at the meeting included PDP founding members, Governors, former Ministers and other party grandees who made their position known in a resolution read by former Deputy National Chairman (South) Bode George.
“Senator Iyorchia Ayu must resign as the National Chairman of the party for an acting Chairman of the Southern Nigerian extraction to emerge and lead the party on the national campaign.
“Consequently, we resolve not to participate in the campaign council in whatever capacity until the resignation of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu,” George said.
I won’t persuade Ayu to resign, Atiku ripostes Team Wike
Atiku laughed it off, saying: “I must reiterate what I have said severally in public and in private; the decision for Dr. Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office is personal to Dr. Ayu and, neither I nor anyone else can make that decision for him.
“As to the calls for the removal of Dr. Ayu from office, however, I will state that, as a committed democrat and firm believer in the rule of law and democratic tenets, and our party being one set up, organized and regulated by law and our constitution, it is my absolute belief that everything that we do in our party must be done in accordance with, and conformity to, the law and our constitution.
“If Dr. Ayu is to be removed from office, it must be done in accordance with the laws that set out the basis for such removal.
“In any event, you will all recall that the very body that is empowered by law to initiate this removal from office, has already passed a vote of confidence in him.”
Atiku in May sidelined the PDP constitution, which stipulates that power rotates to the South in this election cycle, and grabbed the presidential candidate.
And it was at his behest the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) passed a vote of confidence in Ayu in September.