The unending crisis that is tearing apart the main opposition party in the country, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a new twist with the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu going for each other’s jugular.
Recall that Ayu, while reacting to calls by Wike and some of his allies for his resignation as the party national chairman described Wike and his supporters as children when he and some other people founded the party in 1998.
“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.”
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.
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He said 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,” Wike said.
“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. 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.