Following his resignation call, the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu has said that all those calling for his resignation as the party chairman are babies who were not around when the party was formed.
Sen. Ayu who spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday said those calling for his resignation were nowhere to be found when they struggled to form the party.
It could be recalled that the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the PDP and the subsequent appointment of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections has deepened the crisis in the main opposition party.
The camp of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said that Ayu’s resignation is one of the conditions to be fulfilled to resolve the post-presidential primaries crisis rocking the party.
Wike’s supporters argued that it is unfair for the party’s Chairman and its presidential flagbearer to hail from the same region.
Reacting to the development, Ayu said that he was not bothered by the call for his resignation.
He said, “I was voted as PDP Chairman for a four-year tenure and I’m yet to complete a year. Atiku’s victory doesn’t affect the Chairman’s position. I won my election based on our party’s constitution.”
“I didn’t commit any offence, I’m only reforming the party so I’m not bothered with all the noises. I know I’m doing my work and I didn’t steal any money so I see no reason for all these talks.
” When we started PDP, these children were not around. They are children who do not know why we formed the party. We will not allow any individual to destabilize our party.”