PDP Crisis: Wike Accuses Ayu of Collecting N100m and Another N1bn From a Governor

• The crisis rocking Nigeria's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not seem to be ending soon
• A few months before the 2023 general elections, the aggrieved members of the party are still insisting on the resignation of the PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu
• In fact, in a media chat on Friday, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state accused Ayu of receiving a bribe from a governor and also threatened to spill more secrets if pushed to the wall

Governor Nyesom Wike on Friday, October 14, in a media chat disclosed that the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu collected N100m from a governor and another N1bn.

The Rivers governor maintained that if pushed to the wall, he would spill more secrets, Channels TV reported.

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Wike said:

"The party national chairman Iyorchia Ayu collected N100m from a governor and another N1bn. He says if "we are pushed to the wall", he will say reveal more things."

Despite plea by Atiku, PDP stakeholders, "Ayu must go", Wike insists

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has insisted that the resignation of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the only precursor for reconciliation in the party.

The governor said nobody could convince him to drop the request of his group that the PDP should yield the national chairmanship position to the South.

Wike said his effort for an amicable resolution of the crisis rocking the PDP was being frustrated by rent-seekers in the party.

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Four south-south governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been assigned to plead with their Rivers counterpart Nyesom Wike to support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in next year’s election.

The governors saddled with the responsibility are Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom); Douye Diri(Bayelsa); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) and Godwin Obaseki (Edo).

This was made known in a communique at the end of south-south PDP Governors Forum hosted in Uyo, Akwa Ibom by Governor Udom Emmanuel.

Source: Legit.ng