PDP will be completely dead if I resign – Mu’azu

Firstclass newsline gathered that Muazu, who spoke through his
Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Tony Amadi, in an interview with
firstclass newsline crew, said that he would not resign despite the
threat of some members to form a faction of the party.
The national chairman said that the PDP would be buried if he
succumbed to calls that he should resign.
Firstclass newsline had reported that there were moves by some
aggrieved members to form a faction of the party.
But Mu'azu and the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief
Olisa Metuh, said those making the threat should go ahead and carry it
out.
But in a swift reaction, the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose,
said, "The PDP cannot break under any circumstance. Secondly, Mu'azu
as chairman or not, cannot and will not break the PDP. Mu'azu is not a
force enough to break PDP."
Fayose said that Mu'azu did not have the clout to break the PDP,
adding that if he (Mu'azu) ceased to be the chairman, the party would
not die.
"How can a man who cannot win his ward, local government and state say
the PDP will be buried if he resigns?" he asked.
The Ekiti State governor added that even if he (Fayose) left the PDP,
the party would continue to exist.
He insisted that Mu'azu could not restructure the PDP, which he said
needed restructuring.
But Mu'azu insisted that he would not resign.
Reacting to the threat by some members to form a PDP faction should he
remain in office, Mu'azu said, "Let them go and form their parallel
party and let us see where they are going to get their votes from.
"The only reason Mu'azu doesn't want to resign is because if he does,
those who want the PDP buried will succeed."
The national chairman said he was not the problem of the PDP, adding
that what should be uppermost in the minds of genuine party leaders
should be how to rebuild it.
He said that he had remained committed to the cause of the PDP, whose
member he had been since its formation in 1999.
He lashed out at Fayose and other chieftains of the party calling for
his resignation.
Mu'azu asked, "Why are these people trying to create problems for
themselves and the outgoing President? The President has said let us
sheathe our swords; that is why we have not said anything for the past
one week and we obeyed the President. He is our leader; why are they
doing this?"
He wondered why some individuals were bent on heating up the polity
with their conduct and utterances.
"I thought that we have finished elections, we have got a
President-elect and we are going to hand over to the President-elect.
Why are they taking us back? Please, let them cool down, Mu'azu is not
the problem."
Also, Metuh described the call for the sacking of the National Working
Committee members of the party as a mere distraction.
He said in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on
Sunday that those calling for the dissolution of the NWC lacked the
power to take decision for the party and, as such, they did not
deserve a response from him.
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