A pressure group in the Peoples Democratic Party, the
Restart PDP Project, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan was
misled to support Ali Modu Sheriff as the party’s national chairman.
The group stated that the party has no moral justification
to select Sheriff as the PDP leader, describing him as a serial political
decampee.
The Convener, Restart PDP Project, Emmanuel Nwosu told
journalists at a news conference on Friday in Abuja, that Sheriff’s selection
as chairman cannot stand, noting that the state party chairmen had rejected him
as well as other party members.
Nwosu argued that there were many experienced and loyal
party members that could have been made the PDP chairman, insisting that the
appointment of the former Borno State Governor did not follow due process.
He said, “The people that planned and masterminded the
‘coup’ misled former president Goodluck Jonathan and the governors. There was a
meeting a few weeks back, I was privy to that meeting.
“A member was asked to brief the party and this young man
deceived the party that there was no motion that struck out Uche Secondus’
case. The group told a blatant lie and misled the whole party.
“I am certain that Jonathan having been engaged in various
international assignments, would not
have been properly briefed. I am sure Jonathan would withdraw support, if
any for Sheriff, this shenanigan will not stand.”
The group said it was not canvassing support for any
candidate, insisting that it only wanted the right thing to be done, noting
that it was laughable and insulting to make a new party member the PDP chairman.
Nwosu stated that Sheriff lacked the leadership capacity to
move the party forward, stressing that what the PDP needed is a man who would
galvanise it to success.
“Having been a long time party man, who knows the inner
workings of Wadata plaza, Modu sheriff will leave and that is very soon. What the party needs is a leadership that
would galvanise the party to success, it is clear that Modu Sheriff does not
have the capacity to move the party forward and the party has no moral
justification to make a serial political decampee its leader,” he stated.
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