APC behind Sheriff's court victory, PDP alleges

Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, masterminded the ruling of the Court of Appeal which reinstated Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the party.

The party, which described the ruling as the handiwork of the APC to destabilize it, also declared its support for the National Caretaker Committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

Addressing a media conference in Ilorin on Friday, the PDP chairman in the state, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, said the ruling of the appellate court does not reflect the larger interest of the party.

He cautioned the APC against plunging the nation into a serious crisis due to what it described as selective fight against corruption.

Fagbemi also cautioned the ruling party against the destruction and decimation of opposition parties in the country.

“We saw the temporary ‘victory’ of Modu Sheriff as a travesty of justice and victory for APC, which is interested in the destruction and decimation of opposition parties in Nigeria, particularly our great party, the PDP”, he said.

Fagbemi, who addressed the media alongside the pioneer chairman of the party in the state, Barrister Kunle Sulaiman, Senator Makanjuola Ajadi and other elders of the party, counselled the ruling APC government to allow democracy to survive in the country.

He, however, urged PDP leaders and members across the country to support Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker committee, saying the committee was capable of taking the party to the promise land come 2019.

Fagbemi described the decision of the party’s National Convention Committee, NCC, to lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court and filing an application for stay of execution pending final determination of the appeal on the Port -Harcourt Appeal Court’s judgment as a right step in the right direction.

“The national convention committee is the highest law making body of our party as confirmed in Section 33 (2) of our constitution, therefore its decision on any matter affecting our party is final and binding, therefore, on Port-Harcourt decision we stand” he said.