Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that the fight against the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who was suspended by his political unit in Benue State, has just started.
According to Wike, it is unthinkable to allow someone who was unable to deliver his political unit, ward, local government or state to the PDP during the last general elections to preside over the party. Wike accused Ayu of collecting bribes and the PDP experiencing colossal failure in the 2023 presidential and governorship elections in Benue State and across the country.
During the inauguration of the remodelled Community Secondary School, Okoro-nu-Odo, in Obio-Akpor local government area of the state, Wike said that the suspension of Ayu was the beginning of the fight to save the party. The governor insisted that it will be morally offensive for Ayu to remain as the national chairman of the PDP after the catastrophic defeat of the party under his watch. Wike stated that the nullity of the purported summoning of members of the that National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP to Abuja to meet and pronounce the suspension as illegal.
Wike noted that some people within the party are thinking and acting to side with the PDP National Chairman to fight back the suspension slammed on him. The governor warned such persons that they will be doing so to their detriment because they would have consequences to face.
He stated that those who thought they could toil with Rivers State and not be dealt with squarely can begin to lick their wounds because they have been “peppered.” Wike dismissed the claim by the former governor of the state, Chibuike Amaechi that he constructed five flyovers during his tenure and yet cannot list them for identification.
Wike bemoaned the N50B squandered by the Amaechi administration on less than 2 kilometre monorail project that was never realised. The governor wondered why Rivers residents still listen to such politicians when they come around to make woe them to allow them to fill spaces of political leadership when they failed on previous promises of providing democratic dividends.
He thanked the people for voting no massively to elect Sir Siminalayi Fubara, who is now the Rivers governor-elect. Commenting on the project, Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. Dave Umahi described Governor Wike as a man who loves his people, which has informed the sustained delivery of projects across sectors to better their lives
