Posted on: 04:12 Mon, 13 Jun 2016



Ali Modu Sheriff, former national
chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), has been
stopped from invading the party’s
secretariat to take over its
leadership.

Speaking with journalists today
after being stopped by security
agents from entering the PDP
secretariat, Sheriff said that his
mission at the complex was to
“resume officially and takeover”.

It will be recalled that the lingering
leadership crisis in the PDP started
at the party’s May convention in
Port Harcourt, where Sheriff
announced the cancellation of the
exercise.

Despite his announcement, some
leaders of the party went ahead
with the exercise, setting up a
caretaker committee led by Ahmed
Makarfi.

Both parties later went to court to
get orders against each other’s
quest.

Last week, the committee took over
the leadership of the party,
assigning portfolios to its members.

But Sheriff has maintained that he
is still the chairman of the PDP, a
stance he demonstrated on Monday
by storming the headquarters of
the party with a handful of
supporters.