14th October, 2022
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has opened another can of worms on the PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, saying he received double pay for the same project.
Wike, in a live interview in Port Harcourt on Friday said if people knew what he and others knew of Ayu, his children would disown him.
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, revealed other allegations against the Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, saying the party leader lacked integrity.
“If people know what we know, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children,” he said.
According to him, asides the N1 billion Ayu collected, he also collected N100 million from a governor that he was going to renovate the party’s democratic institution, saying that he went back to the PDP’s National Working Committee and took the same N100 million for doing the same work.
Wike dared Ayu to make any comment denouncing what he has said, saying that he would then he would name the governor who gave him the money and exposed other things.
Wike stated that a leader must be a man of integrity and that he had realised that people find it hard to possess that lately.
“You are presenting a man (Ayu) who lacked integrity as chairman of the party and somebody that wants to lead a campaign to take the reigns of government?
“What is the problem with what we are asking of Ayu? We are saying let there be equity, let there be fairness and justice. But if you don’t want it that way then you are the one causing the crisis (in the party) and that shows you (Ayu) don’t have leadership skills because this is the time to show it. This is the time to show leadership skills on the part of those who are leaders of the party,” he said in a report by The Punch.
The governor also said the money returned by some members of the party’s National Working Committee was never approved by the party’s leadership
“Let me tell you how the money came about. When it was discussed at the national working committee, Ayu said everybody should calm down and that Nigerians are interested, and that Nigerians will bring money to the party.
“I don’t want us to go deeper because I feel that we are not pushed to the wall (yet). If we are pushed to the wall, what the people will hear, will be something else,” he added.