I don’t steal, NWC agreed on allowance

The Peoples Democratic Party‘s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, spoke out on Friday regarding the controversies involving some National Working Committee members returning more than N100 million in housing allowance to the party’s treasury.Infomation Guide Nigeria

He asserted that the stipend was approved by the NWC unanimously and that it was not a bribe or illegal payment as some people claimed.

Ayu said that his goal was to restore the party to power and that he wasn’t interested in the party’s finances in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam. He spoke when the Forum of Elected Ex-Officio Members of the party arrived at the party’s headquarters to show support for him.

He said, “The NWC met and discussed the issue of Housing Allowance. It was unanimously agreed that no bribe or any form of illegality took place. A statement has since been issued to that effect. The matter has now been laid to rest.

“The PDP was not founded to be in opposition. We founded the party to access power and develop the country and my historic task is to return the party to power. I won’t be chairman forever. For now, my preoccupation is to return the party to power. I did not come to steal. My public service record is there.

“I have been a leader of the National Assembly. I have been a minister many times. As a person, I have many faults, but stealing is not one of them. I am conscious of my place in history, and the NWC that I lead is guided by the twin-principles of transparency and accountability.”

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The chairman said he deliberately didn’t respond to things said about him in the media because his focus was on winning the 2023 general elections.

Ayu added, “You may be reading many things and expecting my reaction. If we don’t always talk, it is because we want to maintain and build cohesion in the party. We don’t want continuous altercations in the PDP family. Our eyes are on the big picture, which is winning the 2023 general elections.

“Therefore, let us not lose focus. Let us keep our eyes glued to the big picture. Everything else is secondary. We took office because there was a crisis in the party and we don’t want to keep moving from crisis to crisis. It’s not good for the party. We can’t be in perpetual crisis, especially where the crisis is artificial.”

In his remarks on the party’s finances, Ayu said that he had given the Finance Department instructions to keep the party’s statement of income and expenditure current for presentation to the party’s National Executive Committee at the first anniversary of the current NWC in December.

Even while he admitted to having many flaws as a person, he said that one of them was not stealing, and he added that the current NWC was governed by the values of openness and responsibility.

The members were at the party secretariat to show their support for the national chairman and to swear allegiance to his leadership, according to Yunana Iliya, the Forum’s chairman.

Even while he admitted to having many flaws as a person, he said that one of them was not stealing, and he added that the current NWC was governed by the values of openness and responsibility.

The members were at the party secretariat to show their support for the national chairman and to swear allegiance to his leadership, according to Yunana Iliya, the Forum’s chairman.Jamb Result

“We stand by the recent vote of confidence passed on you by the highest decision-making body of the party, the National Executive Committee, and we urge all party faithful to close ranks in PDP’s rescue work,” he added.

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