The Chairman of the 2016 Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention
Planning Committee, Rivers State Governor
Nyesom Wike, has described the party’s
sacked Acting National Chairman, Ali Modu
Sheriff, as a destabilising factor when he
was in charge.
Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention
Planning Committee, Rivers State Governor
Nyesom Wike, has described the party’s
sacked Acting National Chairman, Ali Modu
Sheriff, as a destabilising factor when he
was in charge.
In an interview on Saturday after the
convention in Port Harcourt, Wike said: “All
along, the crisis has been about the former
acting chairman whose emergence was
strongly opposed.
convention in Port Harcourt, Wike said: “All
along, the crisis has been about the former
acting chairman whose emergence was
strongly opposed.
“This was destabilising the party and so we
had to let him go. What is important is the
party and not the individual. No sacrifice is
too much for anyone to make as far as
PDP is concerned.”
had to let him go. What is important is the
party and not the individual. No sacrifice is
too much for anyone to make as far as
PDP is concerned.”
Wike noted that he had no personal interest
in supporting Modu Sheriff as he was the
best option at the time he was picked.
He said: “We will not allow the PDP to die
or suffer divisions under our watch. History
will never forgive us if we watch the party
die.”
He described the Convention as
“successful”, in spite of the failure to elect
national officers because the party “has been
repositioned in the interest of the nation”.
“successful”, in spite of the failure to elect
national officers because the party “has been
repositioned in the interest of the nation”.
