How APC Hired Sheriff to Ruin and Bring Down PDP

 

Sacked acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has been accused of playing a horrible script written for him by the ruling All Progressives Congress to jeopardize the party's chances of recovering and challenging the opposition party.
 
The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday through its Publicity Secretary of the committee, Dayo Adeyeye, said that Sheriff's brazen act of lawlessness is an attempt to set the stage for a violent confrontation that would lead to confusion and chaos in the party. He said this at a press conference addressed by five out of the seven members of the committee in Abuja.
 
Adeyeye alleged that Sheriff, in company with the former National Secretary, Prof. Olawale Oladipo, and former National Auditor, Alhaji Fatai Adeyanju, invaded the secretariat with three lorry loads of thugs and bandits as early as 6am on Monday. He accused Sheriff of being an agent of confusion sent by the APC to destabilize the PDP.
 
He said: “Up to a point, the police discharged their responsibilities satisfactorily. However, later on, without any justification whatsoever, Ali Modu Sheriff and the other renegades were allowed to gain entry into the secretariat, where they later proceeded to address a press conference.’’

“The All Progressives Congress has contracted Sheriff and his cohorts to scuttle the chances of the PDP in the Edo governorship election.

“We have credible intelligence that Sheriff had a meeting on Sunday night with an (unnamed) APC governor from the North-West, where it was organised 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 election, or in the very least, to prevent the PDP from offering a serious challenge to the APC, whose electoral fortunes have continued to nosedive.”
 
Adeyeye further said Sheriff was appointed, not elected by the National Executive Committee of the PDP to complete the tenure of Alhaji Adamu Ma’uzu. He said the appointment of the caretaker committee was in line with the PDP constitution and its extant laws.

“We also wonder who he would be chairman over when he (Sheriff) has already been rejected by 99.99% of the party,” Adeyeye said.
 
In his reaction, however, Sheriff’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Inuwa Bwala, said, “Senator Ali Sheriff is too big to be used by anybody, least of all the APC, to destroy a party he is trying to and weaning from the milk of impunity and rebuilding to give Nigerians a credible alternative.

“He left the APC based on principle and has not had contact with the party ever since. The so-called caretaker committee knows that INEC will not accept any list from it; so, it is desperate to get recognition.

“We know for certain that the leader of that group has a presidential ambition and he appears to have recruited some governors, who are now backing him to use the PDP platform, knowing that Ali Sheriff is a stickler for the right things being done; he sees him as an obstacle that must be removed.”
 
It would be recalled that on Monday, the embattled Sheriff gained entry into the PDP national secretariat and took over the affairs of the party saying that the exparte order issued by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, which earlier barred him from acting as national chairman had lapsed on June 9.