Akwa Ibom PDP Stakeholders Call for Mu’Azu’S Resignation
Following the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party at the national level, some stakeholders of the party, in Akwa Ibom State, have called for the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu.
Speaking to journalists, in Uyo, on Tuesday, Mr. Titus John, from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, said the party had lost at the centre for the first time, in the past 16 years, and, as such, the party structure needed to be re-examined.
John said even though the party had failed, it did not mean the structure should crumble, adding that all outgoing governors were busy trying to tidy up to leave government house than what was happening in the party.
According to him, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria and national leader of the party should convene a National Executive Council meeting of the party, where issues of the party would be critically deliberated upon and major decisions taken in line with party’s misfortune.
He said as the in-coming president was from the north, naturally, the whole of the strength of the north would be for him, and so the national chairman of the party should go where the strength of the party still laid, which was the South-South.
“For post-election analysis, we are doing a self-reexamination of ourselves. Yes, we have failed, but must we crumble? No, we must not crumble,” he said.
John, who is the initiator of the ‘Udom Is Right’ campaign group of the Governor-elect, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, said Jonathan as the party leader should make arrangement with the NEC of the party and hold a congress where Mu’azu should step down, an interim chairman be appointed, and the next national chairman of the party should be zoned to the South-South.
He said Mu’azu should consider it very imperative to resign so that the South-South, being controlled by the PDP, be allowed to handle the office and reconstruct the party from its present condition, adding that Akwa Ibom State, in particular, had, since inception of the PDP, delivered 99 percent of representation at the National Assembly.
