BY FOLASHADE KEHINDE
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has insisted that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, must step down.
Wike was reacting to the news of the resignation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party, Walid Jibril, insisting that it would not stop him and his team from demanding Ayu’s resignation.
The governor spoke when he commissioned the Ahoada Campus of the Rivers State University in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state on Thursday.
“This fight, we will fight it to the end,” he declared.
According to him, the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, told him in person when he won the primary in May that Ayu would vacate his position as national chairman.
He said the issue at hand was that of justice and fairness, adding that, having produced the presidential candidate, the North should not hold on to the chairmanship of the party.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State was also present at the event.
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