The board of trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, to make a firm commitment to resign after the 2023 general election.
This was contained in a communique at the end of the Boat meeting in Abuja, on Friday. advice to Ayu is part of the resolutions of the PDP BoT reached on Friday at a meeting in Abuja.
Reading the communique, former Senate president, Adolphus Wabara, said the BoT “urged the national chairman as an eminent leader, to give a firm assurance that he will resign his position after the 2023 election.”
He further said the BoT called on all party leaders and persons close to them to desist forthwith from making further inflammatory remarks or press interviews and has also asked the chairman of the PDP governors’ forum to convene a meeting of the forum without further delay.
According to him, all leaders of the party have been asked to “match words with action and where commitments are made to unconditionally fulfil same.”
“In the same vein, the BoT chairman has been authorised to offer apologies on behalf of all members who feel maligned or aggrieved by the public statements made by its members nationwide that have sharpened the current division in the party,” the communique reads.
“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.”
Wabara added that the BoT will refer some of the resolutions and recommendations to the national executive committee (NEC) of the party for further action.
