PDP Board of Trustees urges Ayu to resign after 2023 elections

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to give “firm assurances” he will resign after the 2023 elections.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara.

The PDP BOT also asked members to stop making inflammatory statements.

The resolutions of the BoT meeting of the party, dated October 14, 2022 states as follows:

1. The BoT called on all party leaders and persons close to them to desist forthwith from making further inflammatory remarks or press interviews

2. Called on the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay.

3. Called on all leaders of the party to match words with action and where commitments are made to unconditionally fulfill same.

4. Urged the national chairman as an eminent leader, to give a firm assurance that he will resign his position after the 2023 election. In the same vein, the BoT chairman has been authorized to offer apologies on behalf of all members who feel maligned or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members nationwide that has sharpened the current division in the party.

5. The BoT also called on the presidential candidate to review its membership of the Presidential Campaign Council, and other advisory appointments to make it all inclusive.

6. Finally, the BoT will refer some of these recommendations for noting and appropriate action to NEC of the party in due course.

Signed:

H. E. Sen Adolphus Wabara, Ph.D,
Chairman, Board of Trustees (PDP)