Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in Benue State, Isaac Mfo, has denied knowledge of the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, from the party.
Following the news across the country, yesterday, that Ayu had been suspended by the executive council of PDP in Igyorov Ward, Gboko Local Council, The Guardian sought the view of state chairman, who tersely answered that he is “not aware of any such development.”
Mfo said: “Nothing of such has come to my table, neither have I any knowledge of that (Ayu’s suspension).”
Also, chairman of PDP in Gboko Local Council, Mr. Gbangson Adekwagh, told The Guardian, yesterday: “That is what people have kept asking me for the past few hours. But I don’t know where that news emanated from.”
PDP chairman in Igyorov Ward, Philips Karshi, in a viral video, yesterday, read from a prepared script the suspension of Ayu from the party.
Karshi cited, among other sins of the PDP helmsman, anti-party activities, and his purported failure to vote during the last general elections.
The whole matter is coming on the heels of the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP’s referral of Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, to the disciplinary committee of the party.
Ortom, who is one of the five aggrieved PDP governors that protested the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate, is engaged in a cold war with Ayu.
