River State governor Nyesom Wike has escalated the feud in the People Democratic Party by calling its chairman Iyorchia Ayu a spoiler who will make PDP to lose the 2023 presidential elections.
Wike was reacting to statements credicted to Ayu calling Wike and his allies infants in their insistence that he Ayu must quit his position as PDP chairman. Wike and his group had made Ayu’s resignation a condition for lasting peace in the main opposition party.
“Doctor Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman,” said Wike in Port Harcourt.
“Now we have seen that you don’t want the party to win election, we will help you.
“These children you said we are, that brought you from nothing.
“Ayu, you said you founded this party, but you left the party in 2007. You founded a company, you left the company, people stood and brought out the company to what it is today, you have no moral right to still come and claim that you founded that company, you left with your shares.
“You want to show integrity, you want to show a party to Nigeria that we want to take over, you must convince Nigerians that we have the integrity.
“You are the driver that will drive the vehicle to convey us to go our destination. That is the victory we are looking for.
“If the driver has no integrity and cannot show honesty, how do you convince Nigerians?
“If you tell Nigerians something and cannot do it, is it when you enter into power that you will do it?
“Nigerians have seen how ungrateful some of you can be, and that’s why Nigerians also want to be careful, if we give these people power, are you sure they will also be grateful to Nigerians”.