Modu Sheriff’s fate to be decided Monday

The current crisis facing the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its national chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff and his length of tenure may be put to an end on Monday, as the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party will sit to determine his tenure.

National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, who made this known on Thursday while speaking with newsmen, stated that the NEC meeting would also fix a date for the party’s National Working Committee’s election.

He said, “Though some aggrieved members of the party kicked against his emergence, but I can say that through the help of the various statutory organs of the party, we have been able to agree that the various organs of the party will be meeting from Sunday. And on Monday, the NEC will meet to take a definite stand on the tenure issue.”

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Sheriff’s coming as national chairman had thrown the party into disarray, as many members kicked against it, especially former ministers in the party.

But the intervention of the party’s Governors’ Forum settled the matter, as he was asked to spend only three months in office, within which time, he was asked to put in place machinery for the election of another chairman.

Meanwhile, Sheriff on Thursday paid a visit to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in Abuja, where he pledged to partner with INEC in promoting a healthy democratic culture amongst Nigerians through free, fair and transparent elections.

Sheriff while demanding explanations on certain “ambiguities foreseen in the forthcoming rerun and bye elections,” explained that political parties owed Nigerians the duty to uphold the tenets of internal democracy, just as INEC needed to conduct free and fair elections in order to justify public confidence.

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