Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lashed out at a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, saying the latter has nothing to offer the party.
Wike, who has since been at loggerheads with Ayu, said the former Senate President has no electoral value, stressing that this contributed to the PDP’s failure in the 2023 presidential election.
The governor said this in an interview with journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Tuesday, April 11.
He further expressed happiness that Ayu did not quit as the PDP chairman before the February 25 presidential election, saying the ex-senator’s loyalists would have claimed his departure led to the party’s failure in the just-concluded poll.
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“So, you can see that he has nothing to offer to the party. We won here which means we have something to offer to the party. Ayu has nothing to offer the party.
“We are happy that Ayu did not go that time because if he had gone, they would have been saying that it was because he left that is why we lost the presidential election,” Governor Wike stated.
Speaking on the post-election crisis in Rivers State, Wike described it as ” nothing abnormal”, adding that the PDP is “vigilant” in the state.
“There is nothing that is abnormal that you think that is going on in Port Harcourt. What PDP is doing is just to be vigilant,” the governor stressed.
