The factional National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, has said he is
ready to vacate his office only if the party’s
leadership ask him to leave.
Sheriff’s comment follows the leadership crises
currently rocking the opposition party after PDP
claimed that the tenure of the factional leader had
elapsed.
The party went ahead to inaugurate Sen. Ahmed
Makarfi as the Chairman of a National Caretaker
Committee to take over the leadership of the party.
But speaking when some state chairmen of the
party paid him a solidarity visit in Abuja yesterday,
Sheriff maintained that it was wrong for a faction of
the party to attempt to push him aside when he
was elected by the members of the party at its
National Executive Committee meeting.
According to Sheriff, “I’m ready to go. I’m not
saying I must be the national chairman at all costs.
I was invited to lead the party and the election that
brought me to office was done at the NEC Hall of
the party at its national secretariat.
“Four other aspirants contested against me at the
NEC meeting.
“The governors invited me among others to be
considered by the NEC and the NEC sat and
elected me as the national chairman of the party
“There’s nothing personal about my being there or
individual pride about it. It is about the rule of law
and the rule of law must not give way to
illegalities.”
The former Borno State governor told the state
chairmen that he was aware that his tenure would
end in 2018, stressing that the former chairman that
he replaced, Ahmed Mu’azu, was elected in 2014.
“Ahmed Mu’azu got his election when former
President, Goodluck Jonathan was elected as the
party’s presidential candidate in 2015. I replaced
him. So, my tenure would expire after four years in
office,” he added.
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