Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has responded to the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, who said those calling for his resignation are children.
Wike and a couple of governors want Ayu, a northerner, to leave his seat after Atiku, a co-northerner, emerged the party’s presidential candidate. According to them, a southerner as PDP chairman would bring balance to the spread of power.
Speaking on Thursday at the inauguration of roads in Ikwerre LGA of the state, Wike said those who Ayu described as children brought him from nothing to be chairman of the party.
He said if Ayu remains arrogant and refuses to resign, it may cost the PDP the 2023 presidential election.
“You can imagine what power can do. You can imagine how ingratitude, how people can be ingrates in their lives,” Wike said.
“I thought as a chairman of a party who wants to win elections, your business is to bring peace to your party; your business is not to divide your party. Your business is not to show arrogance to your party.
“Yes, the children brought you to be chairman of the party. The children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman.
“Ayu, you were impeached as Senate president. Ayu, you were sacked by Obasanjo in his administration. Arrogance cannot take you anywhere.”
He added, “Now, we have seen that you don’t want the party to win the election. We will help you. These children, these people you call boys, brought you from nothing.”
