Atiku Vs Wike: G-5 Governors Are Not Asking For Too Much

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has said the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), popularly known as G-5 governors are not asking for too much to end the party crisis.

Naija News reports that the CUPP said this while reacting to reports that the governors are planning to announce either the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, or Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi, as their preferred candidate.

In a statement on Friday by its spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere, CUPP said the PDP governors are demanding for the right thing to be done by asking the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, to resign from office.

Ugonchinyere accused Ayu of escalating the crisis rocking the opposition party, lamenting that his continued stay in office was creating more disunity and if care is not taken, it might sink the party.

He noted that the G-5 governors will want to work with the PDP flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, and not with Tinubu or Obi if Ayu resigns to balance the power sharing system in the part.

He, therefore, advised Atiku to prevail on Ayu to tender his resignation on or before January 5, 2023, in order to bring an end to the PDP crisis.

The statement read, “The crisis is taking a turn for the worse as the day goes by. This problem would have been solved if Ayu resigned as he promised shortly after the primary elections.

“It’s worrisome that our great party is going through this rough patch just because one selfish individual who’s eager to hold onto power has refused to do the right thing.

“Not only has Ayu refused to resign, he’s busy chasing petty revenge and going after rightly elected PDP reps and assemblies candidates just because they opposed his continued illegal stay in office.

“We urge the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to prevail on Ayu to resign as earlier agreed. This is the only way the party would reconcile any differences and forge ahead as a united and formidable force to win next year’s election.”