The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Iyiochia Ayu, has attacked the Governor of Rivers State and other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party who are demanding his resignation.
Ayu said they were kids when he and others formed the party.
The PDP Chairman said that they will now allow kids/children who were not there when the party was formed and who did not know why the party was formed to constitute a problem to its progress.
Ayu made the comment while granting an interview to the Hausa Service of the BBC monitored by the Network in Abuja on Wednesday.
There are reports that Wike and those in his camp have insisted on the resignation of the PDP National Chairman as part of the conditions to resolve the post primary crisis rocking the party.
In an obvious reference to Wike, Ayu stressed that the party leaders who have put in do much efforts to strengthen it could not afford to allow an individual to wreck it.
“We founded the PDP in Nigeria. So, some children / kids who have no inkling about the struggle cannot become a problem.
“When we started the PDP we did not see these children/kids, they didn’t know why we founded this party. We will not allow an individual come and destroy our party.”
Ayu also foreclosed the possibility of his resignation as national chairman insisting that he was elected for a period of four years.
He said, “I was elected to lead the PDP for a four-year term, I have not even spent one year. The election of Atiku as Presidential candidate has nothing to do with the position of National Chairman. I won an election as prescribed by our party constitution.
“I did not commit any crime, I’m only bringing in positive reforms to the party, honestly I’m not bothered by the noise.
“I know I’m working, I have not stolen any money, I have not Committed any offense because of this I don’t know what all that talk is about.”
