The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has said a trending picture which depicts him in a meeting with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in Port Harcourt, is ‘fake’.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Wike and his associates have been at the forefront of a campaign for the resignation of Ayu on the basis that it violates the party’s constitution for the national chairman to hail from the same zone as the presidential candidate.
Ayu is from Benue in the north-central, while Atiku Abubakar, the PDP standard bearer, hails from Adamawa in Nigeria’s north-east.
Reacting to a trending photo of an alleged meeting with Wike, Ayu stated that there was no meeting between him and the governor in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, or anywhere else in Nigeria this week.
“Dr. Ayu states clearly that he never travelled to Port Harcourt and he has not set eyes on Governor Wike lately.
“The photograph trending on the social media is an old one. The story accompanying it is, therefore, false and mischievous.
“He also adds, for the purpose of factual accuracy, that he is in no way embattled.
“The National Chairman is, rather, enjoying the New Year break with his family.
“The general public, and especially the PDP family, is advised to ignore the story,” Ayu said, through his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam.
MY ADVICE TO WIKE IS TO SWALLOW WHATEVER THAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED, ALLOW THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE
OF THOSE FIVE STATES TO PREVAIL SINCE ALL OF THEM DO NOT HAVE THE SAME POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND CAN NEVER HAVE BCOS THEY ARE NOT IN THE SAME LOCATION AND DONT HAVE THE SAME LEADERS. ANY SINGLE DESCISION TAKEN FOR THE WHOLE 5 STATES IN THE G5 MAY BACKFIRE AND BE POLITICAL CATASTROPHIC. IT IS WELL WITH WIKE. WE ALL SAW WHAT HAPPENED BUT POSTERITY AND GOD WOULD ALWAYS PREVAIL. AT LAST.