Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has expressed satisfaction over the suspension of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu.
Umar Damagum was unveiled as Ayu’s replacement by the party’s National Working Committee on Tuesday.
Speaking at the commissioning of the Trans-Kalabari Road Phase 1, Degema Local Government Area (LGA), Rivers State moments after Ayu’s removal was made public, Wike boasted that he had told the embattled party chieftain that he (Ayu) will be removed.
“You see how God works? All those people who were plotting evil against us, they are now the ones suffering it,” he said.
The governor also warned those excited about the emergence of a new governor in Rivers that he is still in charge until May 29.
“So, if you do anything, I’ll pepper you. You see how I peppered them now? Are they not the ones suffering it now? Ayu said nobody can suspend him, but today he has packed up from the office,” Wike said.
“We have an acting chairman now. I told him, ‘You will go. Whether you like it or not, you will go.’ Those lawyers telling you that the ward has no power to suspend you, that it’s only NEC, then you don’t understand.
“When you came, it was the ward that suspended Secondus and you went and took office. It is now that you know that it’s only NEC. Let me tell you, since they’ve not told you, the courts have struck off that section out of our constitution to say ‘NEC only.’”
