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The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiorcha Ayu has fired shots at the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, saying the Rivers State Governor was but a child when the party was formed.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Ayu also described Governor Wike and members of his camp calling for his resignation as mere noisemakers and children, who were not available when he and other party chieftains laboured to form the party.
Speaking in an interview on the Hausa service of BBC on Wednesday, the PDP National Chairman argued the presidential candidacy of Atiku Abubakar does not in any way affect his position as the party’s National Chairman.
“I was voted as PDP Chairman for a four-year tenure and I’m yet to complete a year. Atiku’s victory doesn’t affect the Chairman’s position. I won my election based on our party’s constitution,” Ayu said.
When asked in specific terms about the call by Wike’s camp for his resignation among other conditions to support Atiku, he said: “All that he is doing does not affect me because I know I am fixing the party. I am doing my work diligently, I have not committed any offence. I have not stolen any money, so there is no reason for my resignation.
“When we started PDP, these children were not around. They are children who do not know why we formed the party. We will not allow any individual to destabilize our party. This is our country, so all that is expected of us is to fix the country, provide security and dividends of democracy when we take over power in 2023,” he said.
There have been cracks within the PDP camp since the outcome of the party national convention that produced Atiku as the party presidential candidate and the emergence of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate.
Governor Wike was considered alongside Governor Okowa for the running mate slot. However, the Rivers State Governor became resentful after Atiku chose the Delta State Governor as his running mate. Although the PDP set up a panel to reconcile the two men, Wike insisted on the removal of the party’s chairman to mend the cracks in the party.
TNG reports that Atiku had last week met with the Governor in the United Kingdom as part of the reconciliation process