Bode George, a party chieftain, has revealed that Iyorchia Ayu, the PDP National Chairman, will be looking for trouble if he ignores a court order on his suspension amid the crisis engulfing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A high court in Makurdi, Benue State, ordered a temporary injunction on Monday preventing Ayu from impersonating the PDP chairman.
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Ayu and the PDP were named as defendants in lawsuit No. MHC/85/2023, which was brought by party member Terhide Utaan from Benue State. Justice W.I. Kpochi, the court’s presiding judge, issued an interim order in that case.
Consequently, Ayu was instructed to follow the court decision by Bode George, a deputy national chairman of the PDP, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He said;
If there is that court that a judge has issued, the National Legal Adviser representing the party, Ayu should go to that court and plead with the judge that this kind of order cannot hold because of AB, B, C, D.
If you don’t do that and you disregard the order from the court, then you are looking for trouble.
As part of measures to resolve the crisis rocking the main opposition party, Bode George called for calm and unity in the PDP.
According to him, a divided house is a defeated house. He called on both PDP supporters and leaders who love the party to conduct what he described as a post-mortem.
The reason for the analysis, George stated, is to avoid making the same mistakes that has plagued the PDP into its current internal crisis in the nearest future.
He added;
It is a matter of wanting Ayu or not. All I was saying as a respecter of the rules of the party was that when the founding fathers came, (they) made it exceedingly clear that whoever emerges as the President cannot come from the same zone as the National Chairman.
I remember what Ayu told us that if the presidential candidate emerges from the North, I will resign, now he didn’t. But those mistakes have been made. The underbelly of the party is still rumbling.
Whether I like him or not, that is not the issue now. The main issue is that we must stabilise this platform. Let everybody cool down. If we start firing ourselves and make the party look like a divided house, a divided house is a defeated house.
