By Aminu Kutama
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, slammed the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, for showing “ingratitude” and “arrogance” after he was assisted to get the seat of the national chairmanship of the party.
The governor spoke during the commissioning of Omerelu Internal roads in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state, which was monitored by Sahelian Times.
Wike challenged Ayu to show himself as a man of honour and integrity by fulfilling his promise that he would vacate the chairmanship seat if the northern region produces the presidential candidate of the party.
He also said the N14bn PDP realised from the sale of forms of primaries last May must be judiciously used in running the affairs of the main opposition party.
His comment is the latest in the calls for Ayu to quit the party’s chairmanship after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (from Adamawa State) emerged as the presidential candidate of the PDP in May.
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiochia Ayu, had on Wednesday, described as mere noise calls for his resignation, saying the proponents of his removal from office are children who were not available when the party was founded.
Senator Ayu who spoke to the BBC Hausa Service, also disclosed that the presidential candidacy of Atiku Abubakar does not in any way affect him as the national chairman of the PDP, stressing that, even if the presidential candidate had come from his native Benue State.
He insisted that he contested for office of national chairman and won a four-year term in office, saying that he was yet to spend even a year in office.
