An Ibadan-based chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Akintayo Akin-Deko, has blamed the crises rocking the party’s leadership on defectors, who are being imposed on the party’s leadership, insisting that Alhaji Alli Modu Sheriff cannot be the party’s chairman. According to Akin-Deko, who spoke to Sunday Telegraph on Saturday, many grassroots members of the PDP were poised to see that Alhaji Alli Modu Sheriff would not emerge the party’s Chairman, insisting that Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi is an excellent man.
He said, “I insist that the party must follow the due process. The problem with our party started in 2011, when some people from the South South threw out the party’s Constitution, saying that Jonathan should go for second term. That impunity has continued since then to the extent that the governors said they were going to impose Alhaji Sheriff on us.
“The grassroots members are resisting it vehemently. Alhaji Sheriff cannot be there. The governors cannot impose Sheriff on us. Only the BOT can reconstitute the party’s working committee. Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi is an excellent man. Fortunately, he has also the advantage of being a former governor.
He is a bridge that the BOT will use to stop this madness that is going on in Abuja right now, where some people were invaded our party Secretariat as if we are going to the Wild West. “And unfortunately, it is the Northerners that are now behaving like children, attacking themselves over issues of principles.
We have already sent to the party elders and by the end of this month, the problem would be solved. We have insisted that we are not going to remove that suit in court unless they follow due process,” he said.
