Jibrin’s explanation for resigning as PDP BoT chair

Walid Jibrin, a former board chairman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has spoken out about leaving the role.

Former senator Jibrin made his resignation known at the PDP BoT meeting in Abuja in the first week of September.

His resignation was in response to pressure and calls for the party’s leadership structure to be changed in order to balance the imbalance that favored the north.

Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate, and Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman, are both from the north.

There was demand for Ayu to resign from his position in order to balance the equation, especially from the southern interests.

Jibrin, instead of Ayu, shocked the audience by announcing his resignation.

However, his departure did not ease tension or appease southern factions within the group, who claimed that the situation could only be resolved by the resignation of the national chairman.

Jibrin explained to party supporters that he chose to resign in the cause of peace and harmony within the party during the launch of the campaign council for Nasarawa State.

In order to restore order to the party and make room for other party stakeholders who had never held my former position to do so, he said, “I stepped aside from my post as BoT chairman.”

He criticized what he called “politics of ethnicity, regionalism, and religion,” noting that such tendencies are detrimental to the country’s ability to advance.

Before the 2023 elections, he promised that the main opposition party will quickly put an end to the conflict between its presidential candidate and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.

He urged party members to stick together and expressed optimism that the PDP would recover the presidency and win several states in the next elections.