No Party Member Should Attack Another – Ayu Caution Wike, Obaseki

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has charged party members on peace and unity. He noted that if the party members unify themselves, they will win the 2023 elections.

Ayu gave the advice while addressing a joint meeting of the board of trustees (BoT) and the national executive committee (NEC) of the party on Wednesday, at the PDP headquarters in Abuja.

With unity, everything is possible, Ayu told the PDP leaders at the meeting. I call on every member of this party to forget their differences. If there are differences, we must settle such differences in-house.

No party member should attack another party member. If there are any issues, we have different organs of the party to resolve party differences. because such distraction must not be allowed to continue.

You we recall that, Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, and his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki are engaged in war of words over party structure.

Governor Obaseki recently took a swipe at Governor Wike over his reaction to comments by Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, that PDP members who defected from the APC in Edo were not happy and do not feel accepted into the new party.

But in a replied, Governor Wike, in his reaction, described the comments by his Edo counterpart as a rant, saying governance was about feeling and touching, and not a memorandum of understanding.

He also described Governor Obaseki as a serial betrayer’ and apologised to a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, whom he said had initially warned the PDP against accepting his Edo counterpart into its fold.

Ayu’s plea to the party faithful comes against the backdrop of the rift between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

Ayu called on every member of the party to forget their differences. He cautioned that No party members should attack another party member. If there is an issue we have different organs of the party to resolve different issues.

For the PDP chairman, it is important for party leaders and members to settle their differences using in-house mechanisms and to position the party in a position to reclaim power at the centre in 2023.

It is very important that we unify the party. By unifying the party, we will win elections in the state chapters. By winning elections in the state chapters, collectively we will be able to put those votes together and we will definitely win the next presidential election.

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Ayu added that their interest is not just to win the presidential election but to increase its membership in the various Houses of Assembly in the state and the number of governors in the country and take control of the National Assembly.

He assured if elected in 2023, PDP will reunite the country, rebuild and restore the dignity of Nigeria. Ayu charged members of the party not to lose focus of where they are coming from, saying, Nigerians believe that only this party will come to power and restore the glory of Nigeria.

We are not out to fight against ourselves; our goal is to unite the party, go out as we used to do, win elections as we used to do.

We will work tirelessly. We are talking to individual members who have differences among themselves, whether in the wards, local government, state or national level because such distraction must not be allowed to continue.