Situation is moving from bad to worse for the embattled National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, as more party’s chieftains are calling for his immediate resignation over the milking of the party’s treasury dry, especially since the governor Nyesom Wike’s whistleblowing, which resulted in some members of PDP’s NWC returning their own part of the loots.
Recall truthlive.net exclusively reported that some members of PDP National Working Committee returned over N100m of Ayu’s bribe.
As monitored by truthlive.net, two chieftains of PDP, Senator Olaka Nwogu and Mohammed Jamo, who appeared on the Channels Television political Programme, Politics Today , noted that the the scandal over the suspicious payment of sums ranging from N28-N35 million into the personal accounts of NWC members as housing allowance was sufficient ground for him to step down.
A serving senator and chieftain of the party from Rivers state, Senator Olaka Nwogu said:
“What are coming out right now are very embarrassing. I don’t think this is the best thing for our party and is coming at a time when we lest need it. Senator Iyorchia Ayu could recall that when governor Wike gave his media chat, he did said that nearly 14 billion of the party’s money is a target of the move to get Ayu remain in office.
“Now what’s emerging is turning out that some members of the NWC are saying less than 1 billion of that money remains. Then, just at the time when people begins to ask questions, they see money in their accounts. There was no time the NWC sat to decide that people should be pay those amount. Whether it suppose to be loan, did such person apply for loan? Or if it was suppose to be a housing grant.
“The quality and caliber of the people who are coming in these letters are not unknown quantity. We have the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South) who is number three in the National Working Committee and many other key officers of the NWC across the country, who are not aware of such decision”.
On his part, another PDP chieftain from the North, Mohammed Jamo was quoted saying:
“The decision they have taken is an action we must take with all seriousness. Because if Nigerians at party, governmental or at any level of the societal strata, find themselves in a situation whereby they wake up in the morning and see alert of some money which they don’t know and they question that amount. They decided to come forth and say take back this money and make it public. Because all activities of a political party are suppose to be public, like they did and make it public. So this calls for celebration. PFP as a party should honour and celebrate these four gentlemen”.