AYU: Tension as PDP national caucus ignores Wike, protesters

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, has disclosed the party’s natioal caucus meeting again relegated the Ayu-Wike crisis rocking the party and jeopardizing its chances in the 2023 presidential election.

According to him,  many of the party governors absent at the Wednesday  meeting were on holiday outside the country–not that they boycotted the meeting—and were fully represented by their deputies.

Even at the meeting, the matter of Rivers Gov Nyesom Wike and the resignation of national chairman Iyorchia  Ayu never came up for discussion. That was not the first time the matter would be off the agenda.

Ologunagba said nothing of such was discussed at the NWC meeting, saying issues discussed were majorly the agenda of the NEC meeting, composition of the National Campaign Council, among others.

The caucus meeting was attended by PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, his Bauchi and Bayelsa counterparts, Governors Bala Mohammed and Duoye Diri, respectively.

Others were the Chairman and Secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senators Walid Jibrin and Adolphus Wagbara, respectively; Deputy Governors of Edo and Benue, Philip Shuaibu and Benson Abounu respectively.

As the end of the meeting, some protesters converged outside the gate of the Akwa-Ibom Governor’s Lodge chanting “Ayu must go”;  “We want justice in PDP” and  “PDP National Chairman – North”.