Ayu’s Refusal To Resign Will Cost PDP 2023 Poll – APC Chieftain, Nkire

Former national chairman of the defunct Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Sam Nkire has said Nigerian voters will reject Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the refusal of its national chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign as he promised.

Nkire, who is now an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, said “Any political party or its chairman which or who cannot keep to its or his words is not worthy of the people’s votes and trust”.

Nkire, in a statement in Abuja, said trust was the most important collateral a voter should demand before casting his or her ballot for a political party.

Nkire said the nearest anyone could compare the position of a National Chairman of a political party to, was to  those of the judge, pastor or imam who were expected to discharge their duties with utmost sense of accountability to God and man.

He added that “for Dr. Iyorchia Ayu to deny saying that he would resign as National Chairman of PDP if a northerner became presidential candidate of PDP is most appalling and disgraceful, especially as he was caught on tape and in print”.

The former PPA National Chairman said the only saving grace for the PDP would be for the leadership of the party to ask Iyorchia Ayu to own up and keep to his words, “otherwise, the Chairman and the party will pay dearly for being unreliable and untrustworthy “.