Amidst the crisis rocking Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, says nobody can sack him.
Newsbreak.ng reports that Ayu said this in Tiv dialect while addressing the crowd that welcomed him home in Gboko, Benue State, on Friday.
Also, he said he had the power to stop any candidate under the party, particularly in the state following the attacks on his person.
“I have been silent over all the things you are hearing against me because I don’t want any crack in the party I belong to in my state. I have the power to say, ‘you and you will not go anywhere,’ because I will insist that I must sign before you go anywhere.
“But I have signed for all candidates produced by the PDP to go ahead with their dreams; whether I like it or not, I signed. So, I was doing that believing that I cannot shoot myself in the leg.
“I want Benue to come first by winning all elections so that Nigerians will say that the national chairman has delivered his state to PDP with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar winning 90 per cent of the votes and Titus Uba as governor in 2023,” Ayu said.
This news medium reports that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, who was a presidential aspirant of the PDP, is leading a group of party chieftains who are demanding the resignation of Ayu, in order to achieve a “regional balance” since Messrs Ayu and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are both from the north.
But Ayu has insisted he would not resign because he was elected for a four year-term.
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