* Ayu must go, Wike insists
Senator Walid Jibrin has resigned his position as Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).
Senator Jibrin announced his resignation on Thursday during the BoT meeting held at the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.
He had a few days ago promised to step down to assuage alleged lopsidedness in the party’s leadership positions.
Jibrin had earlier lamented that it is not democratic for the North to produce the presidential candidate, National Chairman, BoT chairman and PDP Governors Forum chairman.
There have been growing demands for the resignation of Jibrin and the party’s National Chairman, Iyorcha Ayu, since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate.
In his stead, a former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara, was elected Chairman of the party’s BOT.
He will double as Political Adviser of the National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu.
Wabara, until his election on Thursday, was Secretary of the PDP BoT. He would also serve on the presidential campaign council of the PDP.
Meanwhile, Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State has insisted that the National Chairman of the party Iyorchia Ayu must still step down despite Jibrin’s resignation as its Board of Trustees (BOT) chairman.
Wike spoke at the unveiling of Ahoada Campus of the Rivers State University in the Ahoada East Local Government Area on Thursday.
But earlier on Wednesday, the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) had passed a vote of confidence in Ayu.
