Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said that the national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, must resign or drop ego and plead with members.
It would be recall that some group of PDP governors, including the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike insist that Ayu must resign, for them to participate in the party’s presidential election.
According to Ortom, “Ayu told the whole world that if a Northern candidate emerges, he will resign. So where is the honor now to continue in office?
In a statement on Friday Ortom said, “when a child defecates on your lap, you do not cut off the leg, you clean it up or wash it off and move on. The issue is that the PDP leadership has failed. But for me, I have not called for the removal of the National Chairman because he comes from where I come from. But I have said that the leadership including the National Chairman have failed in solving the problem and I have advised them adequately.
“When members of the Board of Trustees came to me I told them what they needed to do and I also told the National Chairman what he needed to do. I cannot go to the extreme level of calling for his removal but I call on him to do the right thing, to do the needful which has not been done, which is wrong.
“If he takes my advice fine, but if he doesn’t that’s fine too the right thing has to be done to give all comfort because whatever is the demand of Wike today nobody can blame him. The Chairman himself promised that he would resign if a Northern presidential candidate emerged; has a northern candidate not emerged?
“So why is he not coming out? And I have offered two things, it’s either you resign or plead and beg the people why you should continue as National Chairman because you said it yourself, nobody compelled you.
