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THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national caretaker committee said the party would not hold any national convention under the leadership of Ali Modu Sheriff, the court recognised chairman of the party.

Dayo Adeyeye, publicity secretary of the committee, told journalists on Thursday, March 8, in Abuja, that the party could not trust Sheriff with its leadership.

Adeyeye further said that given the “lawless and untoward behaviour of Sheriff so far”, it appeared that there would be no meeting point in resolving the PDP crisis.

While describing the Sheriff–led National Working Committee, NWC, as illegal, the caretaker scribe appealed to Sheriff to immediately stop parading himself as national chairman of the party. He also urged him to stop acting on behalf of the PDP in accordance with the judgment of an Abuja high court delivered by Justice Valentine Ashi on June 29, 2016.

The court judgement, according to Adeyeye, nullified the 2014 Amendment to the PDP Constitution that produced Sheriff as acting national chairman of the PDP, adding that the judgement was never appealed.

Adeyeye added that there was another valid judgment delivered on August 17, 2016, by Justice Nwamaka Ogbonnaya of the FCT High Court in Abuja, which re-affirmed the “sack” of Sheriff as the PDP chairman.

—  Mar 20, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT

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