The caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come out to accuse the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of hiring the "authentic" chairman of PDP, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, for the purpose of destroying the opposition party.
Sheriff was controversially removed as party chairman at the May 21 botched national convention of the party in Port Harcourt, where the caretaker committee was picked to take charge of the party’s affairs.
But Sheriff on Monday stormed the party headquarters with court documents and took over the place.
He will continue in office as chairman till December 2018. His action took many PDP men by surprise.
Consequently, at a media briefing held at a private residence, spokesman of the caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye claimed that the aim of the APC was to scuttle the chances of the PDP in the upcoming governorship election in Edo State.
He said, “The All progressive Congress (APC) has contracted Sheriff and his cohorts to scuttle the chances of the PDP in the Edo governorship elections.
“We have credible intelligence that Sheriff had a meeting on Sunday night with an APC governor from the Northwest where it was agreed that he would be given full security and financial support to exacerbate the crisis in the PDP with the objective of preventing the PDP from presenting a candidate for the Edo governorship elections, or in the very least, to prevent the PDP from offering a serious challenge to APC whose electoral fortunes have continued to nose-dive.
“What we are however very certain about is that Sheriff and his fellow renegades are being used by the enemies of the PDP to destroy our party and to prevent it from reorganizing itself so as to provide a credible opposition and alternative platform for the forthcoming Edo State gubernatorial election and the 2019 general elections.”
Sheriff on his part said he is standing by the decision of the court, so nobody can remove him till 2018.
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