Reacting to the impasse allegedly created by Sheriff within the party by cancelling the already conducted gubernatorial election in Edo State, George while speaking with newsmen yesterday in Lagos warned the embattled leader to walk away from the party, saying his tenure as the party Chairman was over.
Urging Sheriff to accept his faith, the former Deputy National Chairman alleged that the embattled leader went to the party’s national convention in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, as a national chairmanship aspirant seeking re-election and not as the party’s chairman.
George claimed the former Borno State Governor after picking the nomination form, appeared before the pre-convention screening panel for clearance.
He said, “Sheriff is an ex-PDP Acting Chairman. He should go home. He is barely two years old in the party and he does not know the party culture. He ceased to be the chairman at the convention. He was a chairmanship aspirant, who took the nomination form and appeared before the screening committee. You can’t be the midwife and the new born baby. The tenure of the NWC has ended.”
The former Ondo State military governor maintained that the Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee was legal.
“There was a directive that there should be no election into the offices of the chairman, secretary and auditor. The convention is empowered to set up the caretaker committee. It was constitutionally set up and it has the right to organise a new convention.”
He, however, frowned at the party for not invoking the provision of the party’s constitution that forbids members from constituting legal actions against the party when the crises could be resolved internally.
“Those who took the party to court should have been fired. Sheriff cannot lead the party again. We will have new mangers,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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This man was brought into PDP prominence by the legendary Fayose, and had met all the principles of the party chairman until a new convention holds and new party leaders emerged with him presiding over, that is what the party constitution says..... he got a court case stopping the convention he called the NEC members and addressed them as per the court order and certain persons went ahead in disobedient of the court order, please you guyz should quietly settle this out of court because if you go to court this man would floor you guyz
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