PDP BoT warns Sheriff against tenure extension

Says it is invitation to anarchy

I won’t over stay in office, Sheriff assures

From the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came on Tuesday an advice to the party’s National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff not to heed the calls on him by some praise singers to contest in the party’s National Convention slated for May 21 this year.. The BoT of PDP gave the advice against the backdrop of reports of alleged lobbying by the National Chairman to some party stakeholders to back him in staying in office beyond the National Convention.

The acting Chairman of the BoT of the Party, Senator Walid Jubrin gave the advice while addressing Journalists in Abuja. Jubrin pointedly declared that those asking Sheriff to stay in office beyond the period of three months approved by various organs of the party did not mean well for PDP. He said, “The recent courtesy calls to the national chairman and the presentations being made especially calling him to continue beyond the stipulated three months tenure is an invitation to trouble, anarchy and the return of impunity in PDP”. However, in a quick reaction to the advice, the PDP National Chairman assured that he would not remain in office beyond the period approved for him by the various organs of PDP.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media, Inuwa Bwala the PDP National Chairman dismissed the claim that he intends to stand for election in the May 21 National Convention. The acting Chairman of the BoT of the party recalled that the PDP Governors’ Forum, the National Convention, the BoT and the National Executive Committee (NEC) had unanimously approved that the tenure of the National Chairman and other National Working Committee (NWC) would terminate on May 21, 2016. According to him, “The above responsible bodies have approved that the tenure of the national officers will end immediately after the convention when the new officers are duly elected.

“The present NWC received an overwhelming ovation and admiration at the meeting of the national caucus, BOT and NEC by overlooking their 2017 tenure in support of the three months approval of the respected organs of the party which should strictly be complied with. “Instead of listening to the praise singers, Modu Sherif should follow the path of honour and integrity by simply taking a bow in May 2016 after the national convention,” Senator Jubrin said. He therefore warned of the dangers of not adhering to the recommendations of Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s Post-Election Review Committee that the party should seek its 2019 presidential candidate from the North of Nigeria to compensate for the obvious violation of the zoning arrangement in the 2011 election which led to a major apathy against the PDP