The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has begun to talk hard over the demand by the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his cohorts for the resignation of the party chairman, Dr Iyorcha Ayu.
Atiku, in a reaction to the withdrawal of Wkue and his loyalists from the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, on Wednesday, declared that Ayu won't resign as demanded by the Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike and other PDP Governors in his camp.
The 2023 PDP Presidential Candidate however urged the aggrieved party chieftains to rethink and retrace their steps.
Atiku said: "On the calls for the resignation or removal from office of our national chairman, however, I must reiterate what I have said severally in public and in private; the decision for Dr Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office is personal to Dr Ayu and, neither I nor anyone else can make that decision for him.
"As to the calls for the removal of Dr Ayu from office, however, I will state that, as a committed democrat and firm believer in the rule of law and democratic tenets, and our party being one set up, organized and regulated by law and our constitution, it is my absolute belief that everything that we do in our party must be done by, and conformity to, the law and our constitution.
"If Dr Ayu is to be removed from office, it must be done by the laws that set out the basis for such removal. In any event, you will all recall that the very body that is empowered by law to initiate this removal from office, has already passed a vote of confidence in him."
