The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, reached new heights on Thursday when a senior member of the Board of Trustees, Alhaji Shuiabu Oyedokun, accused the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, of disparaging him because of his wife.
Oyedokun, who served as national vice chairman during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, is regarded as a party grandee with a wealth of institutional memory.
In an internal memo to the PDP BoT’s Reconciliation Committee, he claimed that he had never been humiliated in his life until Ayu allegedly scolded him about his wife.
“You have no Control on your Wife. She is a Disgrace to you,” Alhaji Oyedokun quoted Ayu to have said in the memo seen by truthlive.net
The woman in question is Professor Stella Effah-Attoe, the party’s National Woman Leader, who is among senior party officials who allegedly returned hush money.
Oyedokun wrote to fellow committee members in a memo about Ayu’s alleged assertions:
“The Chairman
and Distinguished Members of The PDP BOT RECONCILIATION Committee.
In Your Presence Today, Monday 3rd October, 2022, at an Interactive Session with the National Chairman of our Party, Senator Dr Iyorchia Ayu, you witnessed a Premeditated Attack on my Person.
“The Chairman said I would not like what my Wife, (who happens to be the National Woman Leader and a Member of his NWC) is doing, if he decides to expose her. I leave that to the Woman to clear herself from any Perceived Allegation.
“The Chairman Sarcastically looked and pointed at my Face and retorted, ‘You have no Control on your Wife. She is a Disgrace to you.’
“To me, with my Age and Status in life to be so Publicly Humiliated becomes a Pill I find difficult to Swallow.
“I was overruled from reacting. Yes, I swallowed it only to avoid Polluting the good work this Committee is doing, otherwise the Gentle Stepping of the Tiger is not Bourn Out of Cowardice.
“This is the First Time in my life that I find myself trapped helplessly.
“I just feel I should let you all know how terribly upset I am. Thanks.”