The Caretaker Committee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP has said that it recognises the Edo State Executive Committee of the party urging the general public and in particular the leadership and members of the PDP in Edo State to ignore the statement from Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Professor Wale Oladipo that the executive has been suspended.
In a release issued by the committee and signed conby Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, the committee said the statement from Sheriff and Oladipo has neither basis nor authority saying procedures for taking such far reaching decisions are prescribed in the constitution of the party.
“It is no longer news that the Ali Modu Sheriff – led National Working Committee and indeed all national officers were removed by the Party’s Convention, which is the highest decision making organ of the Party. Senator Sheriff and his cohorts therefore lack the locus to take any decision on behalf of the Party.
“This purported suspension is clearly part of the desperation of Senator Sheriff and his pay masters to orchestrate confusion that would lead to the failure of the Party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State; an election that the Party is otherwise very well placed to win.
“The Caretaker Committee recognises, and would continue to relate with the leadership of the Party in Edo State that was validly elected at the recent Congresses, even as it calls on the members and teeming supporters of the Party in the state to remain steadfast and vigilant in the face of the mischief being perpetrated by Sheriff in order to destroy the Party.
The Committee also appeals to the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services and indeed all security agencies to call Sheriff to order as well as keep more than an eye on him, “so that he doesn’t precipitate crisis in any part of the country, for which he is well known, since we, as Nigerians already have enough on our hands to contend with”.
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