UPDATE: Make Strong Commitment to Resign after Elections – PDP BoT Urges Ayu
POLITICS DIGEST – The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to give aggrieved parties strong assurances that he would leave office after the 2023 general elections.
The Board rose from a crucial meeting on Friday where it deliberated on ways to resolve the crisis in the party.
The Board in a communique signed by its acting chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara, also called on all parties to desist from making inflammatory remarks in the media until the crisis is resolved.
According to the communique, Senator Wabara was equally mandated to meet and apologise to all aggrieved members on behalf of the party.
The communique read in part:
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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.”
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