PDP Chieftains Rush to Abuja for Emergency Meeting as Ali Modu Sheriff Takes Over

 

 

Chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were at the weekend rushing to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, for a meeting tomorrow to decide on the prospects of their platform after the leadership of the party was handed over to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff by the Court of Appeal.

 

Some foundation members of the party were ruling the fact that Sheriff, who joined the party less than three years ago, was preparing the party for destruction.

 

Before joining in July 2014, he had been a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and before then, a member of the defunct All Peoples Party, APP, and former All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.

 

This sigh of despondency was also being buttressed by the fact that Sheriff’s deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh, like Sheriff, was also not an original member of the PDP, having been a foundation member of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and eventually, Delta State chairman of the party, before joining the PDP at the beginning of the millennium.

 

Some stakeholders had, immediately after the judgment, canvassed that they should abandon the PDP and its carcass for Sheriff.

 

However, as the judgment increasingly distilled, many more members were at the weekend beginning to canvass that the judgment should be appealed using what they described as the sound reasoning adduced in the minority judgment given by Justice Abadua Orji.

 

Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation and spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 campaign, was one of those who had opined that the PDP should seek an alternative platform and abandon the carcass of the party to Sheriff.