Governor Nyesom Wike recently accused Mr Ayu of receiving N1 billion from an unnamed person in Lagos.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked the security agencies to arrest the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Iyorchia Ayu, and other members of the National Working Committee over allegations of corruption rocking the party.
The main opposition party is currently enmeshed in allegations of corruption in the past few weeks following an allegation of bribery by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State against Mr Ayu. While Mr Arapaja got N36 million, Messrs Adagunodo and Orbih and Ms Effah-Attoe got N28.8 million each.confirmedThe party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement claimed that the amount was housing allowance paid to the officials.
“Why have the security agencies not rounded up the PDP National Chairman and all the other members of their NWC and questioned them about the misappropriation and diversion of the one billion naira that Wike told us about?“Never have we seen party officials sharing money amongst one another like Father Christmas as the leadership of the PDP has just done.
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