The Governor of Rivers State and former presidential aspirant on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, platform, Governor Nyesom Wike, has accused the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, of collecting N1bn from a particular presidential candidate (name withheld) in Lagos in the build up to the party’s primary.
Wike in a media chat on Friday, revealed that Ayu collected N1 billion from a presidential candidate.
Wike said he was ready to mention the very candidate whom the party’s Chairman received the money from if the need be.
According to him, “Ayu is very corrupt. He cannot deny the fact that he is very corrupt.
“Ayu collected N1 billion from Lagos. He collected 1bn from a presidential candidate and if he denies it, I will name who gave him the money.
“Ayu met one of the presidential candidates and told him he doesn’t think the governors were ready to sponsor the party’s convention and he was given N1 billion.
“That money is not in the party’s coffers. I can tell you the name of the businessmen who were present when he collected the money.”
Wike and his allies have been agitating for the removal of Ayu for the sake of inclusivity and balancing.
The group noted that the only way the party can sail through in the next year’s general elections is to allow a southerner pilot the affairs of the party.