Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike said the National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr Iyorchia Ayu has lost the right to remain in his position having lost his polling unit, ward, local government and State at the just-concluded General Elections.
He told him to get prepared because the war against him in the party has just begun.
The Governor said it had become unthinkable to allow someone unable to deliver his political unit, ward, local government and State to the PDP during the last general elections to preside over the party.
Wike spoke Monday during the inauguration of the remodelled Community Secondary School in Okoro-nu-Odo, in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
The Governor said it would be morally offensive for Ayu to remain as the national chairman of the PDP after the catastrophic defeat of the party under his watch in his unit, ward, local government, state and national level insisting the suspension of Ayu was the beginning of the fight to save the party.
“Those of you who are fighting that they have suspended him, you have not seen anything yet. The fight has just started. Ayu, the fight has just started. If you know him, those of you who are close to him, tell him, Iyorchia Ayu, the fight has just started.
“Will you preside over the one (Rivers PDP) I have secured victory for? You want to come and preside over this state (Rivers) so that we will begin to donate money to the party? You, bring your own state to the party too, so that your state can contribute money to the national. If you don’t deliver your state, you can’t preside over us. You cannot.”
Wike noted that already, some persons within the party were thinking of siding Ayu to fight the suspension slammed on him saying that such persons would do so to their detriment.
Wike said: “Look at somebody, who did anti-party, he is suspending people. The chief priest of the anti-party, native doctor of the anti-party suspended those who have worked hard for this party.
“All of you who are joining Ayu, be prepared. Now, I have no other job, the job I have now is to put more heat on them and I will continue to do that.”
Wike pointed out the nullity of the purported summon of members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP to Abuja to meet and pronounce the suspension as illegal.
He said: “If you like, let the National Secretary rush to Abuja. Let them meet this afternoon and say the suspension is illegal, you will see what you will face. You are calling us small boys; you will see what small boys can do to you.”
Wike stressed that those who thought they could toil with Rivers and not be dealt with squarely could begin to lick their wounds.
