PDP Crisis: What would’ve happened if Ayu resigned before elections – Shehu Sani

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shehu Sani has said the outcome of the presidential elections wouldn't have been different even if the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu resigned before the polls.

The former Senator made this known in a tweet in reaction to the internal wrangling affecting the party and the crisis rocking the party that has led to Ayu's removal.

At least five governors from the party registered their displeasure at Ayu over his insistence to remain as National Chairman despite a northerner producing the presidential candidate of the party.

The governors who are popularly known as G-5 governors demanded his resignation as the only condition to work for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Ayu’s refusal to resign led to them working for candidates of the other parties during the just concluded poll.

Leader of the G-5 and Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, had lauded his team for ensuring that Atiku was defeated in the elections that produced Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner.

Shehu, in the tweet, opined that nothing would have changed if the G-5 had worked for Atiku, citing their inability to win elections in their various states.

Sani wrote, “The fact is that even if Ayu had stepped down before the election, nothing much could have changed because those opposed to him were also struggling to survive and in the end, could not help themselves much.

“Ayu met the party in the City of Sodom and tried his possible best and led it to the desert of Gomorrah”.