'We Expected Atiku To Muster All The Courage On Earth To Remove Iyorchia Ayu' – Ibrahim Abdullahi

GLatestJuly 15, 2023

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The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi has alleged that the members of the PDP NWC had expected Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to have taken the decisive action of removing Senator Iyorchia Ayu before the 2023 election. He said in an interview with Arise Tv news that they could have easily gotten Nyesom Wike on their side with Ayu’s removal. According to him, the former Vice President’s inability to remove his brother was the remote cause of the party’s defeat.

He said, ”Wike said we should not let Iyorchia Ayu get to the election as Chairman and that he will support. And that was a week before the election, I wouldn’t know what was difficult for an Iyorchia Ayu to be sacrificed. Forget about that he’s having a constitutional role for four years, I was also elected for four years. Some of us believed we could relinquish our position voluntarily just for PDP to retain power.

And it was clear that we were coasting to victory. We expected Atiku to muster all the courage on earth to remove Iyorchia Ayu. He was the only person in the position of doing so. He should have said, ‘Look my brother, sacrifice this your position and let us get power. We did all we could but some people think their position is important.”