Erstwhile National Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, has pledged the
commitment and loyalty of his supporters and loyalists to the ideals, goals and
principles of the party under Ahmed Makarfi’s leadership.
Though he accused Makarfi of
using the victory at the Supreme Court as a licence to victimize party members,
Sheriff appealed to members and supporters of his deposed leadership faction to
remain calm and refrain from further legal action of any sort against the
party.
In a statement by his spokesman,
Bernard Mikko, Sheriff said: “We hope the current spate of threats and outright
acts of intimidation will cease so that millions of our party members would not
start seeking ‘alternate platforms’ to secure their political future.
“While remaining loyal and
committed to the ideals and goals of the PDP, we also owe it a duty to preserve
our personal honour and protect the political interest of millions of PDP
members nationwide, who are looking up to us for leadership. We appeal to our
loyal members and supporters to remain calm and refrain from further legal
action of any sort.
“We, therefore, appeal to true
lovers of democracy, the civil society and the media to join hands with us to
ensure that all forms of impunity, lawlessness and blind ambition are
controlled and dispensed with.
“Nigeria is a constitutional
democracy and acts that are capable of destroying our multi-party system must
be avoided. As major stakeholders in the current political dispensation, we
will not remain silent and docile while the democratic norms and values we
cherish are being systematically destroyed.
“Whereas majority of party member
and loyalists continue to dream; desire and pray for a united party devoid of
divisive tendencies with the hope of quickly recovering the lost grounds; We,
the concerned members of the People’s Democratic Party, committed to internal
democracy; justice and rule of law, have observed with the deepest concern the
recent negative developments in our dear party.
“Unfortunately and ironically,
the six-man caretaker committee under the chairmanship of Senator Ahmed Makarfi
is rather celebrating and pursuing the implementation of the fractionalisation
of the party.
“The NCC goaded and guided by
some ambitious presidential aspirants had shown clearly the paths of
constitutionality and rule of law is not theirs to follow. How can the chairman
of the NCC, for instance, explain the dissolution of executive committee
members of states that were duly and legally elected to serve four years from
April 2016.
“It is most worrisome that the
Supreme Court judgment is rather seen as a license to victimize millions of
party members.”
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