BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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THE National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has advised the Prof. Jerry Gana-led Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee to stop speaking for the party. Represented by his National Deputy Chairman, Dr. Cairo Ojougbo, at a news conference in Abuja on Monday, Sheriff described the Gana-led committee as “illegal”.
The committee was constituted on Nov. 10, 2016, by the National Caretaker Committee of the party headed by Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, which was disbanded by the recent judgment of Appeal Court, Port Harcourt. The court, in the judgment declared Sheriff as the authentic national chairman of the party.
The committee had been visiting founding and prominent members of PDP, including former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, Chief Tony Anenih, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sheriff said that the report of the committee, which was submitted to the scrapped national caretaker committee on Feb.17, 2017, would not be useful in the ongoing effort at re-positioning the party.
“Prof. Jerry Gana going round the country on behalf of the PDP is unacceptable to the party. I have the report of Gana here where he recommended that all members of the Sheriff group should be suspended from the party.
“We find it very uncomfortable that a person of Jerry Gana’s standing, if actually he wants to help the party as at this time of crisis, would recommend that a faction or members of the party should be expelled for their political beliefs.
“That is very unbecoming of a man of Gana’s status. So, we take very serious views to his going round as whatever committee he calls himself. The committee was not set up by the party and we are giving notice that forthwith, he should discontinue with it,’’ he said. – Punch
— Mar 13, 2017 @ 18:30 GMT
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