BREAKING: PDP Crisis Worsens as Wike Dares Ayu to Stop Ortom, Others from Contesting 2023 Elections
- Governor Wike has replied the PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, who boasted that he could stop Governor Ortom and others from contesting in 2023
- The Rivers state governor dared Ayu to go ahead with the threat if, indeed, he has what it takes to take such action
- Governor Ortom is a member of the Wike camp calling for Ayu's resignation as PDP chairman before the 2023 general election
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Port Harcourt, Rivers state - Governor Nyesom Wike has lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, Iyorcha Ayu, for boasting that he could stop the political aspirations of Governor Samuel Ortom and others in 2023.
Ayu had said he had the power to stop the Benue state governor and others from contesting the 2023 elections.
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Stop any PDP candidate if you have what it takes, Wike dares Ayu
Speaking with newsmen at his private residence in Port Harcourt on Sunday, October 30, Governor Wike said Ayu lacked integrity, insisting the PDP national chairman was corrupt, The Nation reported.
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“I dare the National Chairman to stop any contestant if he has what it takes. It is in this country where you say a man is very corrupt and he is trying to talk,” Governor Wike said.
Governor Ortom and other members of the Wike camp are demanding Ayu's resignation as PDP chairman before they can back Atiku Abubakar's presidential bid.
Reactions trail Wike's statement
Omorodion Caesars said:
"PDP should just not answer Wike again, after the Election, Wike will look back at all his actions with regret."
Aaron Moses said:
"I support whatever Wike is doing to Atiku because that was what they did to Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 when they said it was the turn of the north to produce the president. It is now the turn of the south to become president. Atiku, the great destabilizer is just trying to be smart by half. You cannot eat your cake and have it."
Okey Walter said:
"I knew chairman must respond immediately... Let the violence continue Biko."
2023 election: “You can’t sack me”, Ayu tells Ortom, Wike, others
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Ayu said he has the power to stop Ortom from realising his senatorial ambition on the PDP's platform.
Senator Ayu, who spoke in the Tiv dialect, told his people that he had the power to stop any candidate under the party, particularly in the state, to avenge all the attacks on him. However, he said that as a father of all and in his quest to avoid a crack in the party, he has decided to remain silent.
Ayu added that the Wike camp can not remove him as the PDP national chairman.
Source: Legit.ng
