BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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THE national caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Ahmed Makarfi, has warned Ali Modu Sheriff to stop parading himself as the party’s national chairman or risk imprisonment.
Dayo Adeyeye, spokesman of the committee, in a statement, on Tuesday, November 29, said Sheriff’s consistent claim to the office was a continuation of his “plans to sustain mayhem” in the party.
“First and foremost, we wish to state categorically that in consonance with judgement of various courts, which Ali Modu-Sheriff and his team of confused travellers have not bothered to appeal, he is not the chairman of our party. His consistent claim to the office is a continuation of their plans to sustain mayhem in our party, but, nature and fair justice have taken care of his desperation.
“We wish to draw the attention of all Nigerians to the judgement delivered by Justice Valentine Ashi of the FCT High Court, which states clearly that Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff was never and is not the PDP National Chairman.
“It is instructive to note that Modu-Sheriff and his team of circus performers have not deemed it fit to appeal the court judgement.
“The courts have spoken, and their pronouncements are binding. However, those who wish to spend the rest of their lives behind prison bars may continue to utter heresy against the court. We hope their children would be proud to bear the family names of convicts,” it stated.
The caretaker committee added that it is morally wrong for the Sheriff group to blame it for the PDP’s loss in Edo and Ondo governorship elections. It noted that the whole world knows who the real enemies of the party are.
He also alleged that Sheriff and Jimoh Ibrahim, his purported candidate for the Ondo State governorship election, were “agents of darkness” used by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to cause confusion and frustrate the PDP in the election, and should be blamed for impunity
However, Cairo Ojougboh, deputy national chairman for the Sheriff-led faction, said it was the Makarfi group that was risking jail, claiming that forms 48 and 49 had already been issued by an Abuja federal high court against the group.
— Nov 30, 2016 @ 13:30 GMT
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