Wike and some governors want Ayu to resign as part of conditions to support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has fired back at the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu for saying those calling for his resignation are children.
Ayu had made the remark on Wednesday in an interview with BBC Hausa.
“When we started the PDP journey, we did not see these children. They are children who do not know why we established this party. We will not allow one person to come and destroy our party,” the PDP chairman had said.
Wike and some governors want Ayu to resign as part of conditions to support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Speaking on Thursday at the inauguration of roads in Ikwerre LGA of the state, Wike said those who Ayu described as children brought him from nothing to be chairman of the party.
Wike noted that if Ayu remains arrogant and refuses to resign, it may cost the PDP the 2023 presidential election.
“You can imagine what power can do. You can imagine how ingratitude — how people can be ingrates in their lives,” he said.
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“I thought as a chairman of a party who wants to win elections, your business is to bring peace to your party; your business is not to divide your party. Your business is not to show arrogance to your party.
“Yes, the children brought you to be chairman of the party. The children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman.”
Wike added, “Ayu, you were impeached as senate president. Ayu, you were sacked by Obasanjo in his administration. Arrogance cannot take you anywhere.
“Now, we have seen that you don’t want the party to win the election. We will help you. These children, these people you call boys, brought you from nothing.”
Wike alleged that Ayu doesn’t want to resign because of the billions of naira in the PDP coffers which were made from the sale of forms during the party’s primary elections.