Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has given a reason why the party cannot afford to remove its National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
According to Atiku, Nigerians may no longer trust the party if Ayu is removed as it will amount to a breach of the party’s constitution.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by his media aide, Mazi Paul Ibe, in Abuja on Wednesday.
The statement partly read, “Atiku, who led other leaders of the party to Ibadan on Wednesday on an interactive session with stakeholders of the PDP said that the call for the recomposition of the National Working Committee was not impossible, but only when the constitution of the party has been amended to accommodate such demand.
“The Peoples Democratic Party is the oldest political party in Nigeria since the return of democracy and even before then. It is a party that has laid down rules and regulations.
“I have been a member of the party since when it was formed and I am still a member of the party up to the point of what it has grown to become.”
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Responding to a demand by South West stakeholders, communicated by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Atiku said, “there is nothing any individual can do to change the outlook of the National Working Committee of the PDP.”
He added, “the PDP is a party where there are laid down rules and regulations.
“What Governor Makinde is asking for is possible only when we have amended our party’s constitution.
“As things stand today no single individual has the power to tamper with the NWC of the party. Doing so will be illegal and it will be against our rules in the party.
“Nigerians will not trust us to govern by the tenets of rule of law if we take such arbitrary action against our own party,” he said.
Source: Vanguard
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