NewsWike, Makinde, Other Aggrieved PDP Governors Meet In Spain

Wike, Makinde, Other Aggrieved PDP Governors Meet In Spain

October 15, (THEWILL) – Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike and three of his allies – Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) on Friday night, departed Nigeria for a meeting in Spain.

A source from Government House, Port Harcourt, said Governor Wike and his team left Port Harcourt International Airport late Friday night.

He said that the governor of Enugu State will likely join the team in Madrid.

The source further hinted that the team will discuss the way forward on the crisis rocking the PDP in Madrid.

Wike and his allies are demanding the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, as condition for their support for the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Although the meeting in Spain is not the first time the southern PDP governors would be travelling out of the country to meet.

They had converged in London in August, where they insisted on Ayu’s resignation during a meeting with Atiku held at The Carlton Tower Jumeirah Hotel.

During a previous media chat in September, the Rivers Governor had accused Ayu of dishonestly collecting N1 billion from an unnamed presidential candidate and businessmen in Lagos State.

The Rivers governor, on Friday, alleged fresh corruption against Ayu.

Speaking at a media chat held in Port Harcourt Wike said, “If people know what we know if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children.

“Let Ayu say he did not collect N1 billion. In fact, let me also tell you, Ayu collected N100 million from a governor that he was going to renovate our democratic institution and then he (Ayu) went back to the PDP NWC and took the same N100 million for doing the same work.”

Meanwhile, Ayu had in response to Wike’s latest allegation against him denied receiving N1 billion from the said presidential aspirant.

He, however, admitted receiving N100 million from a sitting governor but noted that he “fully briefed the BoT that one of our governors made a contribution of N100 million for the revival of the PDI [Peoples Democratic Institute]”.

On Wike’s previous allegation, he said: “I decided not to respond not to encourage altercations in the party. However, I want to make it clear that at no time did I, as the national chairman of the party, collect any N1 billion from anybody.

“When we came in and the party had funding difficulties, the presidential candidate suggested that we should take a loan from the bank and the owner of that bank is a member of the party. He has even left the party.

“The party never took any loan from anybody. Any money advanced to the party was declared before the NWC and handed over to the national treasurer. All our accounts are up to date and we promised to publish the accounts at the end of the year.”

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