PDP Crisis: Sheriff Refuses To Handover

A prominent member of the Sheriff-led group and ex-National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, in a telephone chat with Punch, dismissed the handover ceremony, describing it as illegal. 

The ousted National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has rejected Tuesday’s handover of the party secretariat to the Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee.

Members, who are supporters of the former Borno State governor, made this position known in Abuja, on Tuesday. He and his supporters were reacting to the handover of the party secretariat to the caretaker committee by the party’s Board of Trustees earlier on Tuesday.

Oladipo described the handover of the secretariat by the party’s BoT to the caretaker panel as a breach of the pending court cases.

He said, “They know that what they did this morning was an illegality. It is this kind of impunity that brought us to where we are today. They know that there are subsisting court orders forbidding them from doing that. So, why should they do that?

                               

“They are elders, who are supposed to be the conscience of the party. The conscience of the party must be composed of people with conscience, people who will respect the rule of law. I will not say more than this for now.”

Sheriff’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr Inuwa Bwala, in a statement he signed on Tuesday on behalf of his boss, who was said to have travelled out of the country, dismissed the handover ceremony.