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PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by nairavsdollars(f): 6:54am On Jan 31, 2022
Some elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have raised concerns over the manner governors elect­ed on the party’s platform have completely hijacked the day-to-day activities of the national secretariat.

They also bemoaned the fact that Iyorchia Ayu, the par­ty’s national chairman, may have technically abdicated his responsibility by taking in­structions from the governors especially on issues relating to the 2023 general elections.

Ayu, a former Senate Presi­dent, emerged as the national chairman of the PDP in October 2021 after a consensus arrangement midwifed by the governors of the party under the leadership of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State.

However, according to one of the elders, a former mem­ber of the Board of Trustees (BoT) from the North-West, the fact that the governors helped Ayu shouldn’t mean he should totally surrender the party to them.

“When governors who are just party members become powerful than the national chairman, then it is very dan­gerous, especially for a nation­al party like the PDP. The na­tional chairman should be the one summoning governors but where you have a case when the governors are summoning the national chairman, then it doesn’t speak well”, he said.

“We know it used to be un­der NPN, Action Group, NPC in those days. Even in 1999, we know how it was in PDP. But now things have gone from bad to worse. That is my worry and that of some party elders”, another party elder told Daily Independent.

Also speaking, Senator Ru­fai Hanga, a former national chairman of the defunct Con­gress for Progressive Change (CPC), said the PDP governors are making a mistake if they think they can run the party affairs without consulting with the founding fathers.

Hanga, who accused Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, and few PDP governors of hi­jacking the party said the PDP cannot make any headway in 2023 if the governors fail to carry relevant stakeholders along.

He said, “PDP has not learnt its lessons at all. They think that because APC is misbehaving, then Nigerians will vote for them. But they are mistaken. Some governors that are there not because of their popularity but courtesy of arrangement but they are thinking that yes, they have arrived and can do and undo.

“I am talking of Governor Wike and few others. They came together and monopo­lised the party and anointed their boys and girls as lead­ers. They ostracised the true leaders and gatekeepers of the country and they are bragging that they are now the leaders and the party belongs to them.

“They can’t go anywhere. You can’t be in PDP and say Obasanjo is irrelevant. The same with Babangida, Aliyu Gusau, Danjuma, Atiku or Kwankwaso. You cannot make all these people irrelevant be­cause they are the true shak­ers and movers of the party. In all they did at the convention, all these leaders I mentioned were not carried along. The governors just feel they can do it and get away with it. They are just daydreaming.

“Until they make amends, they are going nowhere. If they can sit down and do the right thing, PDP will win. But right now, I don’t think PDP can get anywhere. They are thinking of bringing this man or that man as presidential candidate. Nigerians will not just vote for anybody. They will vote for somebody they know”.

Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, said Ayu is a tested and highly ex­perienced leader who cannot be pushed around.

While pleading with party members to be patient with the new NWC, George said the governors took over the party affairs after the presidential candidate of the party in the last election was nowhere to be found.

“Ayu is one of the nine peo­ple that started this party and he is not a pushover character. He is a very deft politician who is highly experienced. For those who are complaining about the governors, are they also not members of the party? They can’t be governors in perpetuity. If he listens to them, it doesn’t mean he will just take their ad­vice hook, line and sinker.

“He will listen to what they say but he will think it through and examine it before taking a decision. The beauty of de­mocracy is that we must have robust debate before any deci­sion is taken.

“There is no organisation that does not have one crisis or the other. But the ability of the managers to go through se­rious discussion, lobby, which are all part of democracy, de­termine their strength. At the centre of such serious discus­sion is the truth which they must tell themselves.

“I want to tell our people to just hold on a little bit. I really don’t know where these fire­works are coming from. To me, the man is committed and abidingly loyal to the cause of the PDP. Like I said, he was one of the nine people who started PDP here in Lagos.

“He knows the culture and workings of the party. The moment we had a presiden­tial candidate, automatically, the presidential candidate be­comes the leader of the party. But because there was a lacu­na, the period of absence of the former vice president who was our presidential candidate created a vacuum in the hier­archy. The governors then felt they can’t leave the headship vacant.

“So, they got into it and they are now telling us that they now own the party. It’s like a competition and a chunky part of the party. Have you ever seen anybody who is governor who will one day not leave his position? The position is not a perpetual one.

“So, to me, I will say let them still give the new NWC time. They are just settling down because the former NWC that just left were really ‘National Wacking Committee’. They never consulted anybody but were just firing on all cylinders and did so many things that we knew one day will almost bring this party down.

“They just started. They have Ekiti and Osun gover­norship elections ahead of them to manage. These are things that could have been better managed. They are go­ing back to the grassroots now to re-establish the party which is highly commendable.

“I have no doubt in my mind that they will do their best with the support and help of other elders and stakeholders who are loyal to the party. All they need from us is our cooperation. We must join hands with them to ensure they succeed”.
https://independent.ng/pdp-elders-worry-over-ayus-alleged-subservience-to-govs/

Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by hisexcellency34: 6:56am On Jan 31, 2022
nwaboyi chairman. i know this man can't achieve anything for PDP

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Tissaia(f): 6:58am On Jan 31, 2022
PDP is dead

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by seunmsg(m): 7:00am On Jan 31, 2022
The governors made him chairman and not the elders. He will continue to be subservient to those that imposed him in the party.

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Jazzlite: 7:02am On Jan 31, 2022
He sabotaged 1993 mko polls

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Asgard73: 7:04am On Jan 31, 2022
Ayu is a core Pdp party that understand his leadership role .. and the effects of his decisions and actions , considering awaiting Supreme Court judgement..

Pdp with many wahala .. but united and focused on the goa

this media propaganda doesn’t work.. Elections tales by moonlight and media creating their own imagination..

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by seunmsg(m): 7:07am On Jan 31, 2022
Jazzlite:
He sabotaged 1993 mko polls

How?
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by hisexcellency34: 7:08am On Jan 31, 2022
not true.maybe you are mistaking him for David Mark
Jazzlite:
He sabotaged 1993 mko polls
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Houseofglam7(f): 7:44am On Jan 31, 2022
undecided

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by cardoctor(m): 7:45am On Jan 31, 2022
Dat man still dey?
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by benuejosh: 7:46am On Jan 31, 2022
That man has always been a failure. Ayu couldn't win even his ward during the last general elections. I have said it before time, that man has never completed a project successfully. This is another project that he will fail woefully. Watch and see. I said it before and i am saying it again. Ayu will be a puppet. Person wer tgem buy the position for. He will do according to their bidding.

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by hisexcellency34: 7:46am On Jan 31, 2022
When governors misbehave, can the National chairman summon and discipline them in Nigeria?

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by RichDad1(m): 7:46am On Jan 31, 2022
Failed party.
The implosion waiting for PDP will shock the cou.

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by johnmartus(m): 7:49am On Jan 31, 2022
Pdp will only gather but they will never agreed together. Useless political party.

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Sinnmat: 7:52am On Jan 31, 2022
Nawa o
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by blamingthedevil: 7:54am On Jan 31, 2022
Asgard73:
Ayu is a core Pdp party that understand his leadership role .. and the effects of his decisions and actions , considering awaiting Supreme Court judgement..

Pdp with many wahala .. but united and focused on the goa

this media propaganda doesn’t work.. Elections tales by moonlight and media creating their own imagination..

Somebody that has been changing party like his Oga Atiku is a core PDP? Do you know he was in ACN ?

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Asgard73: 7:57am On Jan 31, 2022
blamingthedevil:


Somebody that has been changing party like his Oga Atiku is a core PDP? Do you know he was in ACN ?

Changing party doesn’t mean someone is not loyal

Ameachi is in Apc but his soul Pdp
Ngige ..
wammako
Tambuwal couldn’t take it

Kwankwanso
Saraki
Oyinlola
All this men are core Pdp .. no matter which party Dey defect to.. they will always fine their way bac
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by linkers: 7:59am On Jan 31, 2022
These are few noise makers. It's part of the game
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by jaxxy(m): 8:01am On Jan 31, 2022
I like the new direction Pdp is taking.
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by olisaEze(m): 8:02am On Jan 31, 2022
He said, “PDP has not learnt its lessons at all. They think that because APC is misbehaving, then Nigerians will vote for them. But they are mistaken." - Sen. Rufai Hanga

E go shock dem! grin
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by agbari1: 8:03am On Jan 31, 2022
The work of the party chairman is a thankless one. Ayu will soon be sent parking just like his predecessors[color=

#000099][/color].
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Thegoodone13(m): 8:07am On Jan 31, 2022
Self interest always affected politician
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by orisa37: 8:10am On Jan 31, 2022
johnmartus:
Pdp will only gather but they will never agreed together. Useless political party.


They're not UPP.
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by AshiwajuFoward: 8:10am On Jan 31, 2022
Some of those complaining about the overbearing influence of governors over party affairs were once governors themselves, and exercised the same dominance over party affairs during their time in those positions. Na turn by turn. Lol.

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by Successlane: 8:14am On Jan 31, 2022
nairavsdollars:

https://independent.ng/pdp-elders-worry-over-ayus-alleged-subservience-to-govs/

Funny people.

What do they expect?

He who pays the piper, ................. dictates the tune

who brought Ayu in the first case, is it not the governors.

Make I hear word abeg.
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by babatunx(m): 8:22am On Jan 31, 2022
Wike for VP !!!

E go shock Peter Obi when Wike go outsmart ahm... grin

Let's wait and see
Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by humberjade: 8:23am On Jan 31, 2022
He who pays the piper calls the tune...shikena

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Re: PDP Elders Worry Over Iyorchia Ayu’s "Bias" To Governors by yaki84: 8:30am On Jan 31, 2022
seunmsg:
The governors made him chairman and not the elders. He will continue to be subservient to those that imposed him in the party.
Who made mai buni chairman, is it tinubu or buhari?
I want check something

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