As campaigns officially begin ahead of the 2023 general elections, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, has returned to Nigeria after a two-week trip to Europe, IgbereTV reports
“His plane touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at about 7pm,” Ayu’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam, said in a statement on Friday.
Ayu jetted out of the country on September 14and handed over to Deputy Chairman (North), Iliya Damagun.
He jetted overseas amid a crisis rocking the main opposition party. While away, at least four members of the PDP National Working Committee returned about N122.4 million to the party.
In separate letters to Ayu, the NWC members alleged that the monies were paid to their accounts without their knowledge to cover “scandalous financial misappropriation”. However, the PDP debunked such allegation, saying the monies were their “housing allowance
