Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been instructed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to bear his cross and refrain from involving the ruling party in the controversy roiling the opposition party.
In a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, disavowed Ayu’s claim that the party was fabricating news reports to fuel the conflict between him and Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike.
Ayu was claimed to have said that Gov. Wike could not father a child in the midst of the upheaval roiling the opposition party; Ayu disputed this and placed the responsibility on the APC.
The opposition party’s leader, the PDP Chairman, was accused by the ruling party of trying to find someone to blame for the impending cyclone that would destroy the opposition party under his leadership.
Characterizing Ayu’s allegation as an attempt to escape reality, the statement reads: “As he (Ayu) struggled to deny a statement credited to him that Governor Nyesom Wike could not father a child, the National Chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, alleged, ridiculously, that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and “other mischievous people” were planting such stories in the media and stoking the feud between him and the Rivers State Governor.
“Understandably, Chairman Ayu is deep in quicksand and swinging wildly in search of third parties to blame for the internal combustion in the party that he leads.
“With such an escapist mindset, it is not difficult to see why the meltdown in the PDP has proved intractable on his watch. Lacking forthrightness and character to accept responsibility for the crisis in his party, how can he possibly resolve it?
“Unlike the party of Ayu, APC does not “plant stories” and does not meddle in the internal affairs of other parties. That is an area of extreme and unrivaled competence of the PDP. In any event, the PDP is unraveling unstoppably and needs no help from the outside.
“Rather than distract himself in search of an illusory scapegoat, Ayu and stakeholders of his withering PDP should concentrate on finding an anchor to slow the Party’s rudderless drift.
“How can a party that has proved incapable of governing itself seek to govern a country as important as Nigeria? After 16 years of ruthless misgovernance and crass failure to reform and reposition itself, quite frankly, the PDP stands morally disqualified from asking Nigerians for their votes in the next general election.”
The population was reassured by the ruling APC that the quest for innovative approaches to raising people’s standards of living and attempting to persuade them to extend our mandate once more in 2023 would continue to be the center of the government’s attention and concern.
