PDP crisis: Sheriff rejects BoT leadership, says Makarfi must resign
Wed Aug 31, 2016 07:30:am Politics
2.6K By Buchi Obichie
The embattled factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Tuesday rejected the leadership of the party's Board of Trustees, thereby taking the ongoing crisis within the party to a whole new level.
In a statement signed by his deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh, the former Borno State Governor said that the outcome of the meeting held by the BoT in Abuja on Monday, was not in tandem with the decision he claimed his faction reached with the Dickson/Mantu reconciliation committee.
Sheriff, however agreed with the BoT that the next National Convention must hold in Abuja.
Sheriff also accused the BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, of perpetuating himself in office.
The statement said, "The BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin has brought crisis to the party.
"In any case his tenure has expired as he has spent more than 10 years as the Secretary and Chairman BoT which runs contrary to the constitution (of the party)."
According to Sheriff, the agreement his faction had with the peace panel was that the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the party, Ahmed Makarfi, should resign from office.
Apart from this, he also said that it was agreed that he (Sheriff) would preside over the party's National Executive Committee meeting where he said, a new National Convention Committee would be named.
He, therefore called on Makarfi to resign his appointment in order to save democracy.
In a statement signed by his deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh, the former Borno State Governor said that the outcome of the meeting held by the BoT in Abuja on Monday, was not in tandem with the decision he claimed his faction reached with the Dickson/Mantu reconciliation committee.
Sheriff, however agreed with the BoT that the next National Convention must hold in Abuja.
Sheriff also accused the BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, of perpetuating himself in office.
The statement said, "The BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin has brought crisis to the party.
"In any case his tenure has expired as he has spent more than 10 years as the Secretary and Chairman BoT which runs contrary to the constitution (of the party)."
According to Sheriff, the agreement his faction had with the peace panel was that the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the party, Ahmed Makarfi, should resign from office.
Apart from this, he also said that it was agreed that he (Sheriff) would preside over the party's National Executive Committee meeting where he said, a new National Convention Committee would be named.
He, therefore called on Makarfi to resign his appointment in order to save democracy.
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