‘We Will Fight To End’ — Wike Brushes Off PDP BoT Chair’s Resignation

– As Rivers, Oyo, Abia Governors, Others Boycott NEC Meeting

The resignation of Walid Jibrin as the Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has not deterred Governor Nyesom Wike from continuing with his attack on the party.

This comes as the Rivers Governor has vowed to continue to “fight” until the party serves justice by asking its chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to step down from his position.

Ever since Atiku Abubakar, a northerner, emerged as PDP’s presidential candidate, the party has not enjoyed a moment of peace as Governor Wike has insisted that it would be unfair for the party’s national chairman and presidential candidate to come from the same region.

On this ground, the Rivers governor demanded Ayu’s resignation as a condition to support the party’s presidential candidate in 2023.

But in an apparent move to shut Wike up, the party’s BoT Chairman who also hails from the north volunteered to step down from his position for peace to reign.

Unsatisfied by the move, Governor Wike during the commissioning of the Rivers State University’s Ahoada Campus in the Ahoada East Local Government Area said “this fight we will fight it to the end.”

Wike recalled that Ayu had earlier promised that if PDP’s presidential candidate came from the north, he would resign after the party convention to give way for a chairman from the south.

Ayu made the pledge at the residence of Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, and at the PDP Senate Caucus meeting, said the Rivers governor.

Wike added that Atiku also told him after the convention that Ayu would resign.

He challenged Atiku to implement his promise, adding, ‘’it is nothing to do with Wike; it has to do with integrity.

“This is what he told me; I challenge the presidential candidate to deny this.

“If he denies it, I will go further to say so many things to Nigerians because enough is enough; we can’t continue this way.”

He described as erroneous, the belief in some quarters that he was bent on destroying the party and stated that he was only calling for justice and equity.

According to him, we have finished the presidential primaries; it is over. So, when people say you want to destroy the party because you didn’t win the primary, I think they’re sick.

‘’Wike is not causing problem, Wike is bringing peace to this country, Wike is advocating for justice, Wike is advocating for equity, Wike is advocating for development,’’ the governor added.

Meanwhile, some southern governors among whom have shown loyalty to Wike in the matter did not attend the PDP NEC meeting.

They include governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom.