The National Executive Council of the Peoples Democratic Party has passed a vote of confidence on Senator Iyorchia Ayu, suggesting that the party chairman will not be stepping down any time soon.
Recall that, on many occasions, the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to make the party lose the 2023 presidential election if Ayu fails to resign.
The governor said this in reaction to recent remarks made by Ayu on calls for his resignation.
While speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, Ayu said those demanding his resignation are children.
Wike said those who Ayu described as children brought him from nothing to be chairman of the party, adding that Ayu remains arrogant.
“You can imagine what power can do. You can imagine how ingratitude — how people can be ingrates in their lives. I thought as a chairman of a party who wants to win elections, your business is to bring peace to your party; your business is not to divide your party. Your business is not to show arrogance to your party,’’ Wike said.
