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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP national headquarters on Wednesday rocked with protests by group from Delta State demanding the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu from office.
The group lead by Chris Anthony is demanding that the National Working Committee led by Senator Ayu upload the name of David Edevbie to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as the authentic governorship candidate of Delta state.
Pointblanknews.com reports that the camp of Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa had produced Sheriff Oborevwori while the pro-James Ibori camp produced
David Edevbie as the governorship candidate.
However, leading a crowd of protesters who displayed anti-Ayu banners, the spokesperson, Chris Anthony said “We expect the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the watch of Ayu to comply with the judgement that has been passed by justice Taiwo Taiwo on the 7th of July.
“They are playing games with the judgement. The party is supposed to forward the name of the winner of that election based on the court order to INEC but they have deliberately refused to do that because they are working in connivance with the Delta state governor, Okowa as an individual.
“They have refused to comply with the court order. Funny enough, INEC officially wrote to the PDP through their legal adviser that they have received a judgement of this nature and that they (INEC) will do the needful by complying and they also expect the PDP to do same but the PDP up to this moment has deliberately decided to abandon what the court had said.
“We are all shouting: ‘we want to lead Nigeria’, if you cannot organise your house properly, how do you expect to address the Nigerian problem. If you simply cannot address the minor problem in Delta, then how do Nigerians trust the PDP to tackle the challenges facing the Nigerian nation in a larger scale.
“We are calling on the leadership of the PDP to do the needful; obey the court order, recognise David… as the governorship candidate of the PDP as the court has so declared.
“The implication of the action of the PDP action on the Delta issue is that they are trying to throw up the fortunes of the PDP in Delta. Everybody knows that the PDP in Delta state is the majority party and there is no other political party in Delta state apart from the PDP. But with the action of the national chairman of party, we are beginning to be convinced of what people have been saying that Ayu is a mole in the PDP to throw up Delta state PDP to the opposition. We see Ayu as a mole in the PDP. He is playing the script of the APC just to actualise the emergence of APC governor in Delta.
“He lacks the capacity to lead the PDP and so he should honourably resign. He has demonstrated gross incompetence in handling the affairs of the party. He should resign. Ayu should resign. He does not have the capacity to manage the affairs of the PDP.”