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Ayu’s leadership brought misfortune to PDP —Sen Nnamani
Former Enugu State governor and chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation & Integration in Africa/NEPAD, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has said that the that the emergence of the national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu brought misfortune to the party “because of his ineptitude, greed and wickedness.”
In a statement he personally signed and issued on Tuesday, Senator Nnamani, who represents
Enugu East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has therefore, asked Ayu to vacate office as national chairman of the party forthwith, saying “his deception and abysmal performance is unmitigated”.
He said: “Ayu is just an unmitigated disaster. His leadership is an evil that befell the PDP . The only option left is to show him the exit door.
“How can Ayu be relying on the PDP constitution section 57 (7)to seek refuge when he had flagrantly subverted the same section to sack key stakeholders of the party including me.”
Section 57(7) of the PDP constitution stipulates that “Notwithstanding any other provision relating to discipline, no executive committee at any level , except the National Executive Committee (NEC), shall entertain any question of discipline as may relate or concern a member of the National Executive Committee, Deputy Governors or members of the National Assembly.”
Senator Nnamani recalled that the Ayu-led National Working Committee, NWC relied on the aforementioned section to expel him when it obviously lacked the power to do so pointing out that Ayu’s case now is akin to the evil that men do lives with them.
“Ayu lacks the moral right to stay a day longer in office as National Chairman. If he still has any modicum of honour, he should quit immediately. Look at the shame he has brought on the PDP. Look at the array of key stakeholders Ayu has sacked or forced to leave the party.
“Except Ayu is a man without shame or honour, he has no business remaining in office, he added.
The former governor, therefore, urged the NEC and the Board of Trustees, BoT of the party wade in to show Ayu the exit door in order to save the party from complete extinction.
It would be recalled that the lawmaker is one of the PDP leaders that was recently sanctioned by the party’s leadership for alleged anti-party activities.
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