Wike mocks removal of former PDP Nat’l Chair, says Ayu behind PDP’s collosal Failure
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has expressed satisfaction on the eventual resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman.
Wike made his position known at the commissioning of the Trans-Kalabari Road Phase 1, Degema Local Government Area.
Ayu’s suspension letter dated March 24 was signed by 12 executive members of Igyorov ward, Gboko LGA of Benue, and they alleged that he did not vote in the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.
The former chairman had been at loggerheads with the aggrieved G5 governors led by Wike since the presidential primary election of the PDP in 2022 resulting in the refusal to support the presidential bid of Atiku Abubakar during the general elections.
As a precondition for resolving the rift, Wike and his allies demanded that Ayu step down as national chairman of the party.
And following the suspension of the People’s Democratic Party’s National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu, Wike, during an interview with Channels Television on Monday said he supports the move as Ayu played a major role in the failure of the party in the just concluded elections.
He further stressed that even if Ayu had left before the election, they would have also attributed the failure of the party to him.
Wike opined that It is only in Nigeria that someone who has failed woefully and without any conscience would still like to occupy the position of power.
He said anyone who cannot win his ward or state does not deserve to lead a national party arguing that Ayu ought to have left the office of the National Chairman of the PDP, although people thought they were pushing for Ayu to leave because of their agenda to make the party fail.
He quipped that Ayu remained the Chairman of the party and the PDP didn’t win, he lost his position as National Chairman, he lost his ward as national chairman, lost his local government as national chairman of the party and also lost in the state gubernatorial election.
The crisis remained unsolved as the major opposition party went into the general elections fragmented.
