PDP crisis: Stop speaking for us – Sheriff warns Jerry Gana

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has called on the Prof. Jerry Gana-led Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee to stop representing the party.

Sheriff, who was represented by his National Deputy Chairman, Cairo Ojougbo, at a press conference in Abuja described the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs committee as “illegal”.

The National Chairman noted that the report of the Gana-led committee would not be useful in the ongoing effort at re-positioning the party.

According to Sheriff, “Prof. Jerry Gana going round the country on behalf of the PDP is unacceptable to the party.

“I have the report of Gana here where he recommended that all members of the Sheriff group should be suspended from the party.

“We find it very uncomfortable that a person of Jerry Gana’s standing, if actually he wants to help the party as at this time of crisis, would recommend that a faction or members of the party should be expelled for their political beliefs.

“That is very unbecoming of a man of Gana’s status. So, we take very serious views to his going round as whatever committee he calls himself.

“The committee was not set up by the party and we are giving notice that forthwith, he should discontinue with it.’’

The committee which was constituted on November 10, 2016, by the Ahmed Makarfi National Caretaker Committee was saddled with the responsibility of finding solution to the crisis ravaging the party.

Following its inauguration, the committee had visited some Chieftains of the party.

Those it has visited include, former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, Chief Tony Anenih, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and former President Goodluck Jonathan.