The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national caretaker committee led by a former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi has alleged that Senator Ali Modu Sheriff is being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to destroy the PDP ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The committee also said for Sheriff to have come to retake over power at the secretariat Monday morning, with a team of “heavily armed thugs” and men of the Department of State Service (DSS) in his convoy is an indication that he “is acting a script of the mighty hands.”
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, spokesman of the Makarfi-led caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said for Sheriff to gain entry into the PDP secretariat to take over power means that he gave false impression to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase to allow his men to open the gate.
Sheriff had stormed the PDP national secretariat in Abuja last Monday and declared that he remained the authentic national chairman of the party till 2018, having been sacked at the May 21 national convention of the party in Port Harcourt on ground that his tenure had expired.
“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 the party and to prevent it from reorganising itself so as to provide a credible opposition and alternative platform for the forthcoming Edo State Gubernatorial election and 2019 elections.
“The All progressives 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 North-west, 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 the APC whose electoral fortunes has continued to nose- dive,” he said. – Daily Trust.
