Tension As Wike’s Camp Pushes For PDP NEC Meeting

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received a fresh turn as the political camp loyal to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been making a push for a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party. 

Vanguard gathered that some allies of Wike within the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and some state chapter chairmen of the PDP in the South may have been facilitating the push for the NEC meeting as part of moves to send the embattled National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu packing from office.

Recall that Ayu has been insistent that nobody can remove him as the chairman of the party.

Addressing a crowd of supporters in Gboko, his hometown in Benue during the weekend, Ayu had said he is capable of stopping any candidate of the party, who is vying on the platform of the PDP from achieving their ambitions if he decides to reciprocate the attacks on him from some quarters.

Ayu and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state have been crossed over the latter’s alignment with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in the call for the resignation of the PDP chairman.

The calls for Ayu’s resignation has been heightened by some prominent chieftains of the party, some allies of Wike and other dissatisfied members of the PDP are hatching a fresh plot to unseat him.

Source: Vanguard