A Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Baraje yesterday justified the call for Dr. Iyorcha Ayu’s resignation as national chairman.
Baraje said the agitation for Ayu’s resignation was not “out of place.”
He said: “We have a tradition of zoning our party offices. It is not a new thing to us that if the presidential candidate comes from the North, the chairman comes from the South.”
Baraje, who cited a similar scenario in 2008, said the then national chairman, Ahmadu Ali, had to go after the elections had been conducted and won.
Ayu has come under fire recently as the call for his resignation intensified.
Reacting to the agitation, Baraje, who was featured on Arise TV Morning Show, said the PDP has a tradition that is well known to all the members and other Nigerians.
The former chairman said the party had agreed earlier in the year during its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja that party offices should be shared between the North and the South and that whichever zone produced the presidential candidate should not produce the chairman.
