The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has called for Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman, to quit. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State claims that he has received threats against his life as a result.
At the opening of the Akpabu-Itu-Umudiogha road in the state’s Emohua Local Government Area, Wike, who claimed that they intimidated him for demanding that Ayu resign as the PDP’s national chairman, divulged this.
He clarified that he is not pushing for Atiku to give up his ticket.
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Wike claimed that those who are going around and shouting trash are prone to forgetting the past. Today, we are not advocating that the presidential candidate give up the nomination. We aren’t being egotistical.
We are only stating that because you are now a contender for president, let our people lead, and they threaten to kill me. Can it be done?
He claimed that certain state residents were chasing around Atiku in the hopes of becoming ministers, calling them rent-seekers.
You haven’t killed an animal and you’re telling ladies not to eat it when you see some rent-seekers from here running around claiming they’ll give me the minister of finance or the governor of the central bank. To find out whether or not women will eat, kill the animal first.
Such a promise is not what I want. Give this to my people; we’re talking about it right now. So that we can conduct business freely, please provide us the chairman. They visit you and share tales.
With the party’s leadership of the zoning arrangement, Wike and the G-5 group have been dissatisfied.
