Accept NEC's resolution on Ayu, support Atiku, Okowa, PDP forum tells Wike

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Accept NEC's resolution on Ayu, support Atiku, Okowa, PDP forum tells Wike

“Thus we appeal to HE Nyesom Wike to accept the recent resolution of the NEC of our great party reaffirming confidence in the National Chairman of the Party in good faith no matter how he and his supporters may view the resolution to be at variance with their desires and aspirations.”

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