Markarfi can’t stop me from presiding at convention

Markarfi can’t stop me from presiding at convention — Sheriff

– A factional chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has vowed that Senator Makarfi led faction could not stop him from presiding over the convention of the party slated for June 30

– He, however, said that he was not opposed to reconciliation meeting being held by the party’s stakeholders

A factional chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has vowed that Senator Makarfi led faction could not stop him from presiding over the convention of the party slated for June 30.

I will organize PDP’s convention despite Makarfi’s ranting - Sheriff

Vanguard reports that Ali Modu, however, said that he was not opposed to reconciliation meeting being held by the party’s stakeholders, adding that party politics is about people not about a single human being.

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He said: “I don’t have any problem with it. I am not against it. I am not opposed to it. Party politics is about people and nobody does it alone. President Jonathan has spoken to me and I told him that I am not opposed to the suggestion. So I am not opposed to that initiative.

“This party is not about Ali Modu Sheriff or Ahmed Makarfi. It is about the Nigerian people and what they want to have in their party. We had misunderstanding in the party. After the botched convention in Port Harcourt, we went to various courts.

“Makaffi went to the Federal High Court in Port

Harcourt where he got a favourable judgment and we went to the Federal High Court in Abuja, and we got a judgment. We decided at that time that since we had two judgments from courts of coordinate jurisdiction, ‘let’s stay away from the secretariat until the Court of Appeal makes a pronouncement’.

Reacting to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement that PDP is dead party, Sheriff said that: “Obasanjo is a leader; he is African leader, Nigerian leader. His reactions are borne by the fact that he was hurt by certain things that happened in the past in the party. But as of today I don’t look at it that way.

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“I was not there when he made that statement. I was in Otta for two days but I did not hear him make such a statement. But if he did, I will tell him that Baba this statement is not right. PDP is not a dying baby, it will not die, PDP will come back, PDP will be united and PDP will be strongest party in Africa very soon as it used to be.”