Politics

You must go March 28, PDP group tells Sheriff

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8 years ago

February 27, 2016

It may not yet be uhuru for the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu Sheriff, as a group in the party, the PDP Rescue Group, Friday, insisted that his tenure, and that of other National Working Committee, NWC, members expires on March 28, 2016.

The group, in a statement issued in Abuja by its chairman, Ambassador Wilberforce Juta, therefore called on the NWC to commence programme leading to the party’s congresses and the National Convention.

The group said it will not rest until sanity is restored to the party, insisting that the tenure of the current NWC will end by March 26, 2016, and that no authority has the power under the PDP Constitution to extend the tenure of any official or organ of the party.

The PDP Rescue Group is made up mostly of the ministers who had served under the PDP since 1999 amongst others.

“Although a joint meeting of representatives of the Board of Trustees, the National Working Committee, the National Assembly Caucus and the PDP Governors’ Forum had offered a compromise to the current crisis, we affirm that no authority has the power under the PDP Constitution to extend the tenure of any official or organ of the party. The tenure of the current National Executive Committee, NWC, will expire on 28th March 2016. We expect all leaders and organ to abide by that.

“Congresses and the National Convention to elect new party leaders at all levels can be conducted in the month of March, 2016. Friday 26th February, 2016 marks the third day in line with the seven days ultimatum handed down by the National Caucus to the NWC to produce a programme leading to the party Congresses and the National Convention”, the group said in the statement.

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