Sheriff Has No Good Intention For PDP – Adeyeye
Agency Report
The Ahmed Makarfi divide of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) believes the party’s National Chairman, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has no good intentions for the party.
Publicity Secretary of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Dayo Adeyeye, stated this in a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
Speaking at the backdrop of a statement credited to Sheriff on his 2019 presidential ambition, Adeyeye said that all efforts of the national chairman were geared towards his hidden ambition.
He said that Sheriff was holding PDP to ransom because he wanted to hijack the party and use it for his selfish interest.
“We had raised the concern that Sheriff was not interested in conducting a national convention that will be in the interest of the party and all members.
“He was planning a convention that will put his cronies in critical party positions who will then rubber-stamp his candidacy when the time to pick the PDP candidate for 2019 Presidential Election comes.
“We are worried that some important party leaders also could not see beyond the facade, tagging along with Sheriff as he drags the party through the mud in his bid at achieving his selfish ambition.
“ We hope perceptible minds in the party can now see why it is extremely dangerous to trust Sheriff with the organization of any convention,’’ he said.
Adeyeye said that having Sheriff as PDP presidential candidate would be a real delight for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“It is as good as having your sparring partner as your opponent in a major bout.
“We want to make a serious contention for power in 2019. We don’t want to field a candidate who is the captain of the second team of the ruling party,’’ he said.
On the allegation that the caretaker committee was already boasting of going to obtain victory on the party’s leadership crisis at the Supreme Court, Adeyeye said it was blackmail from Sheriff’s group.
According to him, it is rather the Sheriff group that is already blackmailing the Supreme Court on the matter the way they did to the Court of Appeal in the Ondo governorship in 2016.
