Court-endorsed People Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff has gone for the jugular of the sacked Ahmed Makarfi faction: Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Ekiti’s Ayo Fayose.
\nHis threat: \u201cI will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through\u00a0 to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
\n\u201cWe must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country.
\n\u201cWe must urgently steer the ship of PDP\u00a0clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose has brought our party,\u00a0making Nigerians to mistaken PDP as a training ground for thugs. That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously.\u201d
\nBut the core of the PDP has a plan B if they fail in the Supreme Court. They will leave Sheriff with the court papers and move on, either to form a new mega party, or join and take over an existent one they are in talks with, a Rivers Senator told us Saturday.
\n“He is doing the agenda of his in-law and we will do our own, if the Supreme Court is cowered like others,” he confided.
\nThe PDP Governors\u2019 Forum spurned the Court of Appeal judgment.
\nChairman of the PDP Governors\u2019 Forum, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, said in Abuja, \u201cIf the people truly symbolise what a party is, then the machinations of our detractors and the anti-democratic organs will not prevail at last.
\n\u201cWe commend the minority judgment of the court and we believe truth will prevail. Thank God we have another opportunity to seek justice at the Supreme Court, which I believe will not be delayed or denied.
\n\u201cThe party will appeal the judgment as we believe in the ability of the judiciary to do justice. However, we plead with our members, leaders and supporters to calm down as we keep hope alive.
\n\u201cIf this is a price to pay, to keep our democracy alive and opposition strengthened, we are prepared to go the whole hog. The party organs will meet shortly to take concrete steps and decisions on the way forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Court-endorsed People Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff has gone for the jugular of the sacked Ahmed Makarfi faction: Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Ekiti’s Ayo Fayose. His threat: \u201cI will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through\u00a0 to attain any position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}