Those Who Run Away From A Fight Are Weak People, We Will Stay Here To Do The Fight- Gov. Wike

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has insisted he is not going anywhere despite the burning controversies he has been consistently generating in the People’s Democratic Party over the removal of Iyorchia Ayu, National Chairman of the party.

Wike has been at the central point of the call for Ayu to step down since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa as Presidential and vice presidential candidates of the party.

Rather than for the crisis to subside as the party inches close to 2023 general election, it simply gets more aggravated. 

On Wednesday, Wike and members of his group announced their withdrawals from the Atiku’s Campaign Council in which they were initially part of. The Wike’s camp disclosed that they will not join Atiku’s Campaign Council until Iyorchia Ayu is removed and a Southerner is allowed to step in as a national chairman of PDP.

The move has continued to create National debate among the political elites. In his reaction to the demand, Atiku told Wike and his co-travellers that he has no power to remove the chairman and he can only be removed by the party’s constitution.

While addressing the party’s stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt on Thursday, governor Wike dropped another bombshell. He told the gathering he is going nowhere because of the crisis rocking the party.

Wike made the statement following calls by some group of people within and outside the party to defect from PDP to another party since he feels cheated in the umbrella party.

According to the governor, it is only weak people that run away from a fight. He said he and his people will stay in PDP to do the fight.

In a veiled jab at Atiku Abubakar, the party’s flag bearer who has remained resolute in his support for Ayu, Wike said: “We will do the fight in the party. We are not like them, when in 2014 they walked out from Eagle Square. They’ve forgotten. They walked out and joined APC.”

The governor noted that the constitution of the party clearly states that elective and party offices must be zoned.

“You have taken the presidential candidate, you have taken party chairman, you have also taken the DG of the campaign. We are talking about party politics.

“You can put pressure on the BoT chairman to resign when his tenure hasn’t come to an end. But you cannot put pressure on the chairman to resign.” Wike said in Port Harcourt on Thursday.