Ali-Modu Sheriff is working for APC – PDP

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led care-taker committee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday accused Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff of working for the All Progressive Congress (APC) to destabilise the party (PDP).

NEWSVERGE reports that Ali-Modu Sheriff, forcefully took over the party’s secretariat on Monday, after he was initially barred from gaining access into the secretariat by armed police officers.

Spokesperson for the PDP Caretaker Committee, Mr Dayo Adeyeye told journalists at a press conference in Abuja that the party intelligence reports confirmed that the embattled chairman of the party is working for the ruling APC to disorganize it ahead of the Edo State elections.

“What we are however very certain about is that Sheriff and his fellow renegades are being used by the enemies of the PDP to destroy the party and to prevent it from reorganising itself so as to provide a credible opposition and alternative platform for the forthcoming Edo State Gubernatorial election and 2019 elections.

“The All Progressives Congress (APC) has contracted Sheriff and his cohorts to scuttle the chances of the PDP in the Edo governorship elections.

“We have credible intelligence that Sheriff had a meeting on Sunday night with an APC governor from North-west, where it was agreed that he would be given full security and financial support to exacerbate the crisis in the PDP with the objective of preventing the PDP from presenting a candidate for the Edo governorship elections, or in the very least to prevent the PDP from offering a serious challenge to the APC whose electoral fortunes has continued to nose- dive,” he said.

In a swift reaction, the Chief Press Secretary to Ali-Modu Sheriff, Mr Inuwa Bwala, described the accusations as baseless.

According to him, time will tell who is being sponsored by forces outside the PDP with the sole objective of destroying the party.

Sheriff had stormed the PDP national secretariat in Abuja last Monday and declared that he remained the authentic national chairman of the party till 2018, having been sacked at the May 21 national convention of the party in Port Harcourt on ground that his tenure had expired.