Morrison Olori, a chief and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said that Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, and Iyochia Ayu, PDP national chairman, clearly want sink the party before 2023 general election.
The chief speaks on the backdrop of the appreal sponsored after a court ruling asserting David Edevbie as the authentic PDP candidate of the party instead of the choice that emerged from party primary.
According to Olori, a senior chief of the revered Ughelli Kingdom, Ayu’s decision to challenge the ruling was unwarranted when the parties involved in the case are all members of the party.
The court presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in the judgement, declared a former Principal Secretary to late President Musa Yar’Adua and one of the governorship aspirants, Olorogun David Edevbie as the candidate of the party.
Following the judgement which declared Edevbie, a former Delta commissioner for finance, as the candidate of the PDP for the 2023 governorship election in the state, Ayu-led PDP filed an appeal challenging the ruling.
The Urhobo-born technocrat accused the PDP national chairman of corruption, stressing that his decision to opposed the judgement is a clear testament that he had been induced by Governor Okowa, who doubled as the running mate to the Presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Olori appealed to critical stakeholders of the party including governors of the PDP and national caucus of the party to call Senator Ayu to order before he buries the party in the state.
While also taking a swipe at the Governor Okowa, the PDP chieftain accused the governor of being behind the crisis rocking the governorship ticket of the party in the state.
He further urged PDP national chairman and Governor Okowa to save the party from unwarranted crisis by accepting the judgement of the Abuja Federal High Court which affirmed Olorogun Edevbie as the candidate of the party.