2023:  WIKE’s camp adamant, insists Ayu must go, withdraws support for Atiku

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A faction of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to the Rivers State Governor and a former Presidential aspirant of the party, Nyemson Wike have withdrawn their support for the party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar unless the party Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu stepped down.

READ ALSO:   Gov Wike Absent As Atiku Meets PDP Ex-Presidential Aspirants In Abuja

The decision was announced in long hours of meeting that commenced on Tuesday evening into the early hours of Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at the private residence of Wike in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the group said none of them will participate in whatever capacity in the campaign council unless the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, resigns for a southern candidate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some members of the group were recently appointed as leaders and members of the campaign council for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present at this defining gathering at Wike’s residence in Port Harcourt include Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State; former Governors Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, Ayo Fayose of Ekiti, Donald Duke of Cross River, Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe and Jonah Jang of Plateau, former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke.

 

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Others at the meeting are elder statesmen, Olabode George, Jerry Gana; South-South Chairman of the PDP, Dan Orbih; former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche; Senator Suleiman Nazif, Nnenna Ukeje, among several others.

After over seven hours of private meeting from 7pm on Tuesday, September 20 to past 2am on Wednesday September 21, they gather to briefing journalists on the outcome, with George stating the shocker.

The decision of the Rivers governor’s camp comes some days to September 28, the official date for candidates to kick-off campaign as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

READ ALSO:  WIKE lambasts AYU like never before as PDP crisis deepens

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