Wike: Ayu collected N100m from PDP Gov

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, of collecting N100 million bribe from a governor elected on the platform of the party.

Wike said Ayu cannot deny the allegation, vowing to reveal the governor if the PDP chairman tries to.

The governor said this in an interview with journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Friday.

He said: “Let me also tell you, Ayu collected N100m from a governor. I am telling you of a governor.

“Let him (Ayu) say no that it was not true and I will tell you the governor. These are things people don’t know.

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“If not for the love of this party, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will tell him that ‘You are no longer our daddy’,” Governor Wike stated.

The governor added that Ayu should resign his position as the PDP chairman, noting that the former senator promised to resign if the party’s presidential candidate comes from the North.

“We have not done primary and a man came out and said if the presidential candidate comes from my region (North), I will leave. Honour it. It is integrity and part of the hallmark of leadership.

“If he cannot do that, how can you tell Nigerians that anything the PDP tells you, we would do it?” Wike said.

The governor has since been at loggerheads with Ayu over calls for the latter’s resignation.

Wike and his allies had called for the resignation of Ayu as a condition to campaign for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the 2023 polls, adding that the party’s chairman should step down for a southerner.

The governor and his loyalists, on September 20, announced their withdrawal from the PDP presidential campaign council.

They also boycotted the inauguration of the party’s campaign council held on September 28 in Abuja.

They equally failed to attend the flag-off of the PDP presidential campaign held at the Nest of Champions Stadium in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday.

The Star