The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP) has made moves against the five aggrieved PDP governors G5, who want the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to resign as a condition to join the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign train.
The G5 Governors are Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Seyi Makinde.
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The governors, known as the G5, have accused the PDP Chairman of partiality and corruption, asking him to step aside for a Southerner.
But Ayu has launched an offensive against the governors, shredding the lists of polls agents compiled by the governors and forwarded to the party’s national secretariat in Abuja for onward submission to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
While the electoral act empowers political parties to be represented at each of the polling booths and collation centres, the PDP National Chairman reportedly do not want the party’s destiny to be entrusted into the hands of those nominated by the dissenting governors.
A source reveal that Ayu and his team have subjected the lists of prospective agents from the G-5 and a few other states to scrutiny.
“Well, I don’t understand what you are trying to drive at but I must tell you that it is the responsibility of the National Secretariat to forward the lists of party agents to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the election,” the source said.
“The state chapters can assist in the compilation of such list for their states but the decision of who does what as party agents lies with the National Chairman. Don’t forget the presidential candidate too may have his own preferred people in the states. The election is his own, and he should have the prerogative to choose those who will represent him as agents at the poll.
