“PDP Will Return 25 Govs in 2023”, Ayu Dreams Big, Reveal Party’s Major Takeover Plan
- Senator Iyorchia Ayu, in reaction to Governor Nyesom Wike's meeting with Bola Tinubu in London, has said that the party is in a good mood
- The national chairman of the opposition party has vowed that the PDP will reclaim 25 states in the country come 2023
- He, however, noted that the party's main target is to retain power in the polity and win the presidency in the forthcoming general election
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has told party loyalists and Nigerians that the party will return 25 or more governors during the 2023 general elections as it used to in the past.
Ayu made this disclosure after a closed-door meeting with the party’s governorship candidates from the 34 states across the country on Wednesday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, The Punch reports.
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PDP governors meeting with NWC
According to Ayu, the governorship candidates met with some members of the National Working Committee to express their concerns in their various states on the efforts they were making to win elections in their states.
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He said:
“The candidates came and express their concerns in their various states. Briefed us on the efforts they are making in their various states to win the elections.
“We want to return about 25 state governors or more as we used to have. So the mood in the party is excellent.
“We are very determined that we don’t just win at the national level, states and national assemblies, and state governorship, we want to return about 25 state governors or more as we used to have. So the mood in the party is excellent.”
The meeting came amid the leadership crisis in the party, where pressure was been mounted on Ayu to step aside as one of the conditions for reconciliation, according to the camp of the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state.
Mission revealed as Atiku heads for London amid Tinubu, Wike's reported meeting
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has reportedly headed to the United Kingdom.
It was reported that Atiku's London trip was in an attempt to resolve his rift with Govermor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state.
The newspaper cited sources close to the former vice-president as confirming that Atiku is billed to meet with the Rivers governor on Thursday, August 25.
Atiku's move comes after Tinubu met with Wike
Legit.ng notes that Atiku's move to resolve the issues between him and Wike came a day after Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), met with the Rivers governor in Paris, France (some reports said they met in London).
Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue; Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and other PDP stalwarts loyal to the Rivers governor also attended the meeting.
The PDP has been in turmoil since Atiku chose Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, as his running mate, ignoring Wike who was said to have been preferred by a majority of the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) members as the candidate for the position.
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