Reprieve on Monday came the way of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff.
The various party organs and stakeholders who were hitherto calling for his ouster gave
him the nod to run as sole chairmanship candidate at the national convention billed to
hold in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday.
At a broad based meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, the stakeholders, including
the Board of Trustees (BoT) unanimously endorsed Sheriff for the job, with the various
dissenting groups in agreement.
Confirming the development, Sheriff, in a chat with journalists at the party’s secretariat,
said his candidacy was first endorsed by the party’s Northeast zone and his home state
of Borno in a unanimous voice vote.
He said, “Yes, I am contesting for the position of chairman at the convention. I have
been unanimously endorsed by the Northeast zone and Borno State as sole candidate.
“The Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, moved the motion for my adoption and his
Gombe State counterpart, (Ibrahim Dankwabo) seconded the motion.”
Sheriff had, after an earlier meeting with the party’s BoT, said the party had dropped its
plan to amend the PDP constitution which had been one of the sources of
disagreement among party stakeholders.
He, however, clarified that the decision to amend the party’s constitution was not his
idea, saying that he only inherited the recommendation as contained in a report by the
Ike Ekweremadu committee.
Sheriff confirmed the party’s decision to zone the PDP’s presidential ticket to the North
for the 2019 general election.
The chairman also assured the BoT and other stakeholders that disagreements arising
from the conduct of ward and zonal congresses across the states would be looked
into, with a view to addressing areas of conflict.
The party also confirmed Senator Walid Jibrin as newly elected chairman of the BoT,
with Chief Ojo Maduekwe as secretary
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