The Police yesterday sealed off Wadata Plaza, headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja. It is all in a bid to prevent the party’s crisis from growing. But ousted National Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff met with his strategists in Abuja and vowed not to surrender his mandate. Sheriff’s camp has also vowed to deny factional National chairmen Ahmed Makarfi and Sen. Ibrahim Mantu access to the secretariat.
Sheriff and his loyalists were contemplating a court action last night, although a decision was yet to be reached as at the time of filing this report. To show his determination for a fight to the finish, Sheriff shunned calls from Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose. The Governor was said to have called Sheriff many times but the deposed Chairman spurned the entreaties which he termed as “medicine after death”.
The battle may be dirtier because Fayose’s ally, Sen. Kashamu Buruji, turned back emissaries sent to him by the Governor on the way forward for the party. Instead, Kashamu opted for a rapprochement with Mantu’s 57-man caretaker committee, with a plea to give Sheriff a second chance at the next National Convention in three months time.
