Wike brings new charges against Ayu

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has made new allegations against People's Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu.

Mr. Wike spoke in a live media chat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday.

He accused Mr. Ayu of receiving double pay for a single project for the party.

"If we release what we have, Ayu's children will go to him and say that we are no longer your children," he said.

Governor de Rivers had accused the PDP national chairman in September of collecting 1 billion naira as a bribe from a PDP presidential candidate in Lagos ahead of the party's primary in May.

When asked why he thinks Mr. Ayu has not yet responded to the allegation, Mr. Wike replied, "There can be no comment. He (Ayu) can't do anything. say.

"Actually, let me also tell you that Ayu collected 100 million naira from a governor that he was going to renovate our democratic institute, then he (Ayu) returned to the (PDP) NWC and took the same 100 million naira to do the same job."

The governor challenged Mr. Ayu to deny it and he revealed more details about the double salary.

“A leader must be a man of integrity. You are presenting a man (Ayu), the chairman of the party, who has no integrity to be the one leading the campaign to take the reins of governance,” he said. -it added.

Mr. Wike, who was a presidential aspirant for the PDP, leads a group of party leaders who are demanding Mr Ayu's resignation, in order to achieve "regional balance" as MM. Ayu and PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar are both from the north.

But Mr Ayu insisted he would not step down as he was elected for a four-year term.

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Mr. Wike, in Friday's media chat, claimed that Mr. Ayu had promised to step down if a presidential candidate for the party emerges from the north, not when the candidate wins the general election to become president.

He said the party had found itself in a leadership crisis due to its failure to zone the party's presidential ticket for Southern Nigeria in accordance with the party's constitution.

"The two major positions have now passed into the same area (north). We said let's play the role that everyone will take their cake. Take and let me take and there will be peace, there will be peace. 'unity. But if you take it all, that's where you have a problem.

“What we are facing is that the president (should) go to the South (because) the presidential candidate is in the North. They are disenfranchising my people. That would be foolish on my part of the South to abdicate this position of president,” he said.

“No one should talk to me about the best interests of the party. You should talk to me about the best interests of my people. president is in the South."

The governor said the post of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the party's vice-presidential candidate was not a "major post".

He faulted those who argued that the party's national chairmanship position should be zoned south if Mr. Atiku became president in 2023.

"If after the election, Atiku wins the presidential election, what role will the national president play again?" he said.

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