Politics
After Makarfi, Sheriff goes after PDP BoT, says it’s illegal
The factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said the leadership of the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT, is illegal.
Sheriff, who stated this in a statement signed by his deputy, Dr Cairo Ojuogboh, also rejected the decisions reached at the BoT’s meeting on Monday.
According to Sheriff, the decisions reached at the BoT meeting fell short of the agreement he had with the peace committee set up by the board.
Sheriff has been at loggerheads with the Ahmed Markarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP, which he has dregged to several courts.
It would be recalled that the PDP Board of Trustees had at a meeting on Monday, sacked the Governor Nyesom Wike led national convention committee and also placed an embargo on the holding of the party’s convention in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and opted for Abuja instead.
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Both decisions were in tandem with some of the conditions given by Sheriff for peace to reign in the party.
Sheriff, also, in the statement, said the chairman of the BoT, Walid Jibrin, is perpetuating himself in office, adding that he has overstayed his term in office both as secretary and as the chairman.
He also accused Jibrin of being the cause of the crisis rocking the party.
The statement also quoted Sheriff as saying that one of the agreements he had with the peace committee was that the National Caretaker Committee of the party would resign from office.
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews…
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