PDP Crisis: I Dare you to stop Ortom, others – Wike fired back at Ayu

Nyesom Wike, the governor of River state, has just hit back at Iyorchia Ayu, the National Charman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over his comments about Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state.

Ayu, while speaking with his followers earlier on Sunday in his country home Gboko, said He has the power as the National chairman to stop Ortom, and others calling for his resignation from fulfilling their ambitions.

According to Ayu: “I have been silent over all the things you are hearing against me because I don’t want any crack in the party I belong to in my State, I have the power to say ‘you and you will not go anywhere’ because I will insist that I must sign before you go anywhere.

Ayu explained that he opted against such a step to avoid cracks in the PDP

Responding to this, Governor Wike while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday, said Ayu lacks integrity and branded him a corrupt man.

“I dare the National Chairman to stop any contestant if he has what it takes.

“It is in this country where you say a man is very corrupt and he is trying to talk,” Wike said.

Wike recalled how the Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, convinced other PDP governors to allow Ayu become the party National Chairman, which was against the resolution earlier made by the governors, not to allow the National chairman come from a place that a PDP governor comes from.

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He said: “The agreement by the governors was that no national chairman should come from where a PDP governor comes from but Ortom came, and he is a man we respect and that he wants to promote his people and let them be at the national politics, we said okay.

“This is a man (Ayu) who never campaigned anywhere and now can tell you that if he wanted to stop the man who brought him, who guaranteed him. That’s the corruption we are talking about.

“He has now come into office, he has seen money, he has seen power, and now can open his mouth to say if he wanted to stop Ortom he would have stopped him.

“He said he can also stop any contestant, look at him, maybe he’s hollow, he doesn’t know anything.

“I dare him. If he’s National Chairman I dare him to stop any contestants if he has what it takes”.

Governor Wike, while speaking to the news men, also disclosed that he dealt with Ayu when he allegedly attempted to impose a governorship candidate in Rivers state.