Stop attacking each other, PDP national chairman Ayu charges members

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, has charged members of the party to stop attacking each other.

Ayu said this while addressing members of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Committee (NEC) on Wednesday at the PDP headquarters in Abuja.

The chairman said the focus of members of the party should be on winning elections rather than distracting the party by fighting each other.

“I am calling on every single member of the PDP family to put their differences aside. We are not out to fight against ourselves; our goal is unite the party, go out as we used to do, win elections as we used to do,” Ayu said.

“I call on every member of this party to forget their differences. If there are differences, we must settle our differences in-house. No party member should attack another party member.

“If there are any issues, we have different organs of the party to resolve party differences.”

The PDP has been faced with a war of words between Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki.

Wike had, while reacting to Obaseki’s deputy, Philip Shaibu’s threat that they were going to leave the PDP if they continued to be treated like outcasts, described him as an ingrate.

This did not sit down well with Obaseki who published advertorial in the newspaper to defend his deputy.

Obaseki further accused Wike of treating PDP as his personal property, stating that Edo State could not be bullied nor procured.

Responding to Obaseki’s remarks, Wike said the Edo governor was a serial betrayal, apologising to Obaseki’s predecessor and former All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole for not believing him.

Ayu’s remark follows a similar one by the Sokoto State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Tambuwal at the party’s stakeholders meeting on Monday in Abuja.