Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday summoned a meeting with stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
The meeting is held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The meeting was summoned amid the ongoing crisis in the PDP over rising calls for the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign for a southerner to take over.
Recall truthlive.net reported that Wike and his allies including Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, ex-governor Ayo Fayose, and Jonah Jang, amongst others had on Wednesday morning pulled out of the campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, insisting that Ayu must go.
Governor Wike said he will remain in the PDP and fight for what is right.
He insisted that Senator Iyorchia Ayu must step down for the sake of equity and fairness in the PDP.
The chieftains argued that the Atiku and Ayu, both northerners, cannot hold the two most prominent offices in the party simultaneously, and noted that Ayu should fulfill his promise to step down with the emergence of a northern presidential candidate.
The meeting was attended by the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Siminialayi Fubara; Chairman of the PDP in Rivers state, Ambassador Desmond Akawor; amongst others.