A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, popularly called “FFK”, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to suspend the national chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu.
This was as FFK, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), also called on security operatives to arrest spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign, Sen. Dino Melaye, in order to probe his revelation that the election that brought Ayu in as PDP’s chairman was faulty.
Taking to his Facebook page on Sunday, Fani-Kayode wrote, “Senator Dino Melaye, the spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar PCO, said, all the PDP Governors spent money to get Senator Iyorchia Ayu elected as National Chairman.
“This is a grave and serious matter. It is a public confession of a criminal offence made by a senior figure within the PDP cabal that committed the said offence.
“It follows that Ayu’s election was a product of corruption and criminality and so was Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s as their party’s presidential flagbearer at a later convention which was conducted by him.
“I hereby call on the Federal Government and the security agencies to invite Senator Dino Melaye to shed more light on how much each of the PDP Governors gave for Ayu’s “election.
“And I call on them to arrest and prosecute Iyorcha Ayu and the entire NWC of the PDP for being accomplices to a criminal act, beneficiaries of the crime of corruption and accessories after the fact.
“I also call on INEC to nullify Ayu’s so-called election as National Chairman and to do same to that of Abubakar Atiku’s who was purportedly elected as the party’s flagbearer.”
But Sen. Dino Melaye was swift in his response to Fani-Kayode’s criticisms. Melaye on Sunday, also via his Facebook page, stated that the election that installed Ayu as chair was supported by PDP’s governors.
He worte, “The reality is that Professor Iyorchia Ayu, a man of repute and impeccable political profile was supported by governors and members of the party.
“It is not rocket science that though Professor Ayu emerged by consensus, a convention was held and delegates were mobilized to Abuja.”
