PDP crisis: We’ll not go to S/Court if we lose at appeal – Sheriff

THE factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Monday hinted that he would not go to Supreme Court “if he loses the pending leadership crisis case rocking the party at the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Speaking with newsmen yesterday in Abuja, Sheriff insisted that the caretaker committee led by Sen Ahmed Makarfi was an illegal outfit, which came through the back door and would leave through the back door.

Sheriff who spoke through his Deputy, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, restated that he was ready for a total reconciliation for the party to move forward lamented that it was the Makarif led faction that was frustrating all the peace processes earlier embarked upon.

According to him, “we agreed with the stakeholders that whatever is the outcome of the Appeal Court, nobody should appeal against it. For us, we will accept it and everybody should accept it

“After the court judgment, all of us will sit down again and discuss. It is obvious that the Port Harcourt judgment will be the deciding factor. Anybody who will go ahead after the judgement, it is up to him.”

Although the factional chairman did not disclosed where the agreement took place, he however said that “the agreement not to appeal is as a result of consultations with organs of the party.

“Prior to the national convention in Port Harcourt, no member of caretaker committee was a member of the party executive. They were brought in through the back door and through the back door they will go.”

He explained that they have unmasked the success of multi-party democracy in Nigeria, adding that before now anybody can wake up and tell the chairman of his party to go.”

Sheriff said that they wanted  to restore the principle of party supremacy, noting that for his dogged fight and his position, even the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman would have gone by now.

On why the PDP administrative staff failed to honour his invitation, the factional chairman said that they would fix another day for the meeting as majority of the staff were still on holiday.