…Makarfi adamant, asks Sheriff to vacate secretariat

The Sen. Ahmed Makarfiled National Caretaker Committee of the PDP yesterday declared that there was no meeting point on the political solution being sought by party stakeholders to resolve the leadership crisis bedeviling the party.

Leaders of the committee said considering the way the national chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, was going about the issue, they would rather continue pursuing the case at the Supreme Court.

Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, the spokesman of the caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said party leaders have no trust in Sheriff and as such, would not allow him to conduct the proposed national convention.

Prince Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, therefore called on Sheriff to vacate the party’s national secretariat or risk jail, claiming that he is “an illegal chairman.”

The former minister said if Sheriff did not vacate the Wadata Plaza, the caretaker committee would take legal action against him.

He said the judgment of an Abuja High Court delivered by Justice Valentine Ashi, on June 29, 2016, which nullified the 2014 Amendment to the PDP Constitution that produced Sen. Sheriff as national chairman of the PDP was never appealed by the embattled chairman and the time frame stipulated by law for the appeal had elapsed, and as such, the judgment subsisted.

“The PDP will not hold any national convention under Sheriff, because we don’t trust him. He is being sponsored by the ruling party (the APC).

“I challenge him to issue just one statement against the ruling party. We will pursue our case at the Supreme Court to a logical conclusion, “Adeyeye said.