After days of political grandstanding, tongue-lashing and
counter accusation, the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji
Adamu Mu'azu has bowed to pressure from party leaders to
resign from the job.
The PDP has formally confirmed that its Chairman, Mu’azu,
has resigned, with immediate effect.
“The National Chairman went through the party
primaries and campaigns in spite of some health
challenges. Immediately after the election, he travelled
abroad for medical attention.”
The spokesperson for the party, Olisa Metuh, who confirmed
the resignation to journalists in Abuja, said Mr. Mu’azu
resigned to continue to attend to his health.
Mr. Metuh said the party’s deputy national chairman, Uche
Secondus, has already taken over as the acting national
chairman, pending the election of a new chairman.
He said a new chairman will also emerge from the North East
as Mu’azu.
Metuh said PDP National Secretary, Wale Oladipo, would
address a press conference to address the issue and other
matters concerning the party.
A source revealed that Mu’azu was advised by his associates
at a meeting on Tuesday night, to resign.
Indications that he had told members of the party’s National
Working Committee, NWC, of his decision, emerged early
Wednesday when the spokesperson of the party, Olisa Metuh,
told reporters at the party’s head office in Abuja to expect a
“breaking news” briefing from him later in the day.
Sources said apart from Mu’azu, the chairman of the party’s
board of trustees, Tony Anenih, is also expected to resign on
Wednesday.
It is rumoured that Patience Jonathan is forcing her husband,
Goodluck Jonathan, to become the new PDP Board of Trustee
chairman as a way of having a grip on the party from Bayelsa
after May 29.
