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General News of Monday, 27 March 2023

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BREAKING: PDP suspend its national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, gives reason

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Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been suspended.

According to Channels Television, Ayu was suspended by the Executive Committee of the PDP in the Igyorov ward of Gboko Local Government Area of Benue state.

It was reported that the PDP national chairman suspended Ayu over alleged antiparty activities after the executives passed a vote of no confidence on him.

Banger Dooyum, the secretary of the PDP at the Igyorov ward in Gboko LGA, said Ayu's anti-party activities were a major factor for the PDP to lose the national chairman's ward and local government during the last election.

Dooyum, while reading the ward exco's resolution, disclosed that Ayu and his allies did not vote during the March 18 governorship election in the state. The PDP also accused Ayu of not paying his annual dues as contained in the constitution of the party.

The document that authenticated Ayu's suspension was signed by 12 out of the 17 executives of the party at Ayu's wards. The PDP not only lost at Ayu's ward and local government, but the ruling party in the state also lost the state guber election to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Father Hyacinth Alia.