The PDP BoT members led by the acting Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, are expected to thrash out the issues so as to enable the party go into the elections as a united party.
By Emma Ogbuehi
As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over what has been dubbed the ‘Wike Challenge’ festers, a delegation the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), led by the chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, is holding a crucial closed-door meeting with the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike right now.
The meeting is holding at the government house in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
The meeting is part of the ongoing efforts to resolve the crisis orchestrated by Wike and four rebel PDP governors who have sworn never to support the presidential candidacy of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar until the national chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, resigns or be kicked out.
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The five PDP governors led by Wike include Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Samuel Ortom Benue; Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia).
They met last week in Enugu State behind closed doors.
Though the outcome of the meeting was not made public, TheNiche gathered that the group reaffirmed their opposition to the status-quo in the opposition party.
The five Governors and other PDP leaders supporting them have insisted that following the emergence of Atiku as the presidential candidate, Ayu must resign to allow someone from the South take over his position in the interest of justice and equity.
But the party had argued that the party’s constitution must be followed in carrying out the demand of the Wike group.
Ayu himself has been defiant, insisting that he will not quit his position, even as members of the National Working Committee (NWC) have passed a vote of confidence in him
The PDP BoT members led by the acting Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, are expected to thrash out the issues so as to enable the party go into the elections as a united party.
Aside Wabara, others in the seven-man delegation include, former Kogi State Governor Ibrahim Idris, former Enugu Governor Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun; Kabiru Turaki, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Dr. Esther Uduehi and Hajia Zainab Maina.
It remains to be seen what progress will be made with the two groups digging in on their positions.