The sudden suspension from office of immediate past national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, threw up many questions and scant answers. Is PDP walking the treacherous path as the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), to set up a caretaker committee?Would the party survive the latest ordeal after another trouncing at the general elections, which it is contesting in court? Was Ayu a double agent that worked for APC,
The sudden suspension from office of immediate past national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party , Dr Iyorchia Ayu, threw up many questions and scant answers. Is PDP walking the treacherous path as the governing All Progressives Congress , to set up a caretaker committee?The sudden suspension from office of immediate past national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party , Dr Iyorchia Ayu, threw up many questions and scant answers.
It should be noted that the Executive Committee of Igyorov Ward, Gboko Local Government Area of the state, had last Sunday passed a resolution in which it suspended the former national chairman from membership of the party. In a statement through his Special Assistant on Media, Simon Imobo-Tswam, Ayu declared: “We wish to state categorically and with all emphasis at our disposal thus, Article 57 of the PDP Constitution as Amended in 2017, expressly prohibits any organ of the party or executive committee of the party at the Ward or State Level from taking any disciplinary measure against any member of the party’s National Executive Committee.
Short of swearing by the Bible, Mfo declared: “Nothing of such has come to my table, neither have I any knowledge of that. People have kept asking me in the past few hours, but I don’t know where that news emanates from.” By the time Ayu’s suspension became public, his close allies initiated frantic face=saving measures to push back on the damaging development. But, they all amounted to so little too late.
“We are very sure that the Igyorov Ward exco, acting on their own and by themselves cannot contemplate such action. We have information that they have done that under threats to their life, by agents of none other than the governor of Benue State,” Atser stated. “The application is supported by a 15-paragraph affidavit to which is annexed 3 exhibits as exhibits A1, A2 and B, which are the applicant’s membership cards of the 2nd defendant’s receipts for payment of dues and the vote of no confidence passed on the first defendants/respondent by the Igyorov council ward of the 2nd defendant in Gboko Local Government.”
Maintaining that Ayu was into a peculiar mess , Nnamani supported his removal from the party, stressing, “his deception and abysmal performance is unmitigated.” “The Ayu-led NWC relied on the aforementioned section to expel me, when it obviously lacked the power to do so. Ayu’s case now is akin to the saying that the evil that men do lives with them. Except Ayu is a man without honour, he has no business remaining in office.
“So, he is our man, and I commend him very, very well. And I am begging Wike that they should lift the suspension so that he can suspend many more of their leaders. We love what he has done, and so we commend him. I think Asiwaju must know that he worked for him and must also integrate him into the next administration.”
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