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The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed to resolve the rift between the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike.
Rather, members of the Board, during a meeting at the Abuja PDP national secretariat, resolved to set up a committee to take up the task.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, the BoT chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin said all members of the BoT are members of the committee.
However, snippets at the meeting indicated that the BoT had dismissed the demand by Wike camp that the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu must step aside.
The Governor’s camp had premised its demand on an agreement said to have been reached earlier, that Ayu will step aside if a Northern emerged the PDP presidential candidate
