The crisis rocking the Peoples’ Democratic Party escalated further on Thursday as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, responded to remarks credited to the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
National Infinity reports that Ayu, in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Tuesday dismissed Wike and his loyalists “as youngsters who lacked the knowledge about how the party was formed” for asking for his resignation.
Wike, at the inauguration of Omerelu internal roads by a former South-West Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, warned that the action and utterances of Ayu could jeopardise the party’s fortunes in the 2023 elections.
Wike went further that he expected Ayu, as party chairman, to unite all aggrieved members and galvanize them for the 2023 elections without division, so that PDP could win the poll.
Instead of showing appreciation to governors who supported him to emerge as the party chair, Wike said Ayu demonstrated ingratitude by describing them as children.
Wike said, “Dr Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you to be chairman of the party. The children brought you from the gutter and made you chairman. Ayu, you were impeached as Senate president.
