PDP Did Not Pick Okowa As Atiku’s Running Mate – Iyorchia Ayu

The Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has mentioned that he used to be no longer liable for Atiku Abubakar’s option of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta Order as his (Atiku) running mate.

Kumornews experiences that disaster has engulfed the most major opposition occasion following the resolution of Atiku to gain Okowa against the advice of a panel plan up to aid show cloak vice-presidential nominees.

Talking to The PUNCH, the media aide to the Nationwide Chairman of the PDP, Simon Imobo-Tswam, mentioned Atiku used to be liable for picking Okowa as his running mate and never the PDP.

He illustrious, “This count on in actuality must be directed on the PDP presidential candidate, His Excellency, Alhaji. Atiku Abubakar. Okowa is no longer the running mate to Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, and neither is it the PDP Nationwide Chairman or the NWC that chose him because the running mate to Atiku.

“Obviously, the occasion used to be fascinated in regards to the processes resulting within the emergence of a running mate, nonetheless no topic the occasion did used to be easiest advisory; the option of who became the candidate’s running mate used to be by some means, finally mentioned and performed, the resolution of the candidate.”