Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, retaliated against Iyorchia Ayu, the PDP’s national chairman, over his comments on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.
Ayu had made it plain that he had the authority to prevent Ortom and others from running in the elections in 2023.
You won’t move because I will insist that I must sign before you do so, Ayu had said, adding that “I have the authority to stop you.”
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But Wike said the PDP chairman lacks integrity and has been corrupt while briefing journalists in Port Harcourt on Sunday.
“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,” Wike said.
Wike remembered how Ortom persuaded other governors to overturn the resolution of the governors, who had decided that the National chairperson should not come from a region where a PDP governor is from, and allow Ayu to become party chairman.
He said: “The agreement by the governors was that no national chairman should come from where a PDP governor comes from but Ortom came, and he is a man we respect and that he wants to promote his people and let them be at the national politics, we said okay.
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“This is a man (Ayu) who never campaigned anywhere and now can tell you that if he wanted to stop the man who brought him, who guaranteed him. That’s the corruption we are talking about.
“He has now come into office, he has seen money, he has seen power and now can open his mouth to say if he wanted to stop Ortom he would have stopped him.
“He said he can also stop any contestant, look at him, maybe he’s hollow, he doesn’t know anything.
“I dare him. If he’s National Chairman I dare him to stop any contestants if he has what it takes”.
Governor Wike also disclosed that he dealt with Ayu when he allegedly attempted to impose a governorship candidate in Rivers state.
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