Governor Nyesom Wike has celebrated the replacement of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, with Umar Damagum in an acting capacity role.
Ayu was replaced barely two days after the Executive Committee of the PDP in Igyorov Ward, Gboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, suspended him.
Hours after it was reported that Ayu had been replaced, Wike celebrated the development at the commissioning of the Trans-Kalabari Road Phase 1, Degema Local Government Area (LGA), Rivers State.
He said at the event:
“You see how God works? All those people who were plotting evil against us, they are now the ones suffering it.
“So, if you do anything, I’ll pepper you. You see how I peppered them now? Are they not the ones suffering it now? Ayu said nobody can suspend him, but today he has packed up from the office.
“We have an acting chairman now. I told him, ‘You will go. Whether you like it or not, you will go.’ Those lawyers telling you that the ward has no power to suspend you, that it’s only NEC, then you don’t understand.
“When you came, it was the ward that suspended Secondus and you went and took office. It is now that you know that it’s only NEC. Let me tell you, since they’ve not told you, the courts have struck off that section out of our constitution to say ‘NEC only.’”
