Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to the Friday’s
ruling by the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital,
which recognized Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the legitimate Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
A three-man panel of judges in a unanimous decision agreed that the former
Borno State Governor is the authentic National Chairman of the party.
The former Aviation Minister, who has often been critical of Modu
Sheriff’s struggle to be the party’s National Chairman, mocked the
judgment, calling it a victory for President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Those that say that they will work with Ali Modu Sheriff are misguided
and naive.
“Worse still anyone that calls for members of the PDP to rally behind him
and recognise him as our National Chairman is a simpleton and a fool.
“I say this because the man is evil: he is an agent of destruction and no
good can come out of him. I was the first to see him for what he was and I
said so publicly.
“Then came the PDP Ministers Forum who also stood their ground. At first
no-one believed us until eventually 90 per cent of our party members lined
up behind those of us that opposed Sheriff and that supported Makarfi.
“I read his insulting comments about Fayose and Wike and I laughed. Are
these not the very same people that brought him in the first place and
convinced others in the PDP Governor’s Forum to support him?
“Now he has finished using them to get what he wanted he is insulting them
and saying that they must be kicked out of the party and dealt with.
“I say shame on him because that will never happen. Fayose particularly
has proved his worth to Nigeria and Wike has stood firm and strong in
defence of his people and state. They are both lions and I am proud to
stand with them and Makarfi.
“Sheriff is nothing but a traitor who is biting the fingers that fed him.
Fayose is one million times the man he is. As a matter of fact, so are
almost all the governors and other party leaders. Sheriff comes nowhere
near any of us in any shape or form.
“Only a blind, deaf and dumb simpleton or prancing village idiot would
line up behind a man with such filthy and evil antecedents.
“This is a man whose fundamental purpose and ambition in life is to sell
the PDP down the river and to help the ruling APC and the Buhari
government to destroy us and win the presidential election in 2019.
“Sheriff is the Angel of Death to the PDP. He is worse than the bubonic
plague: not only is he a curse to our party but he is also an affliction
to our nation.
“I stand with Ahmed Makarfi and our Caretaker Commitee and unless and
until the Supreme Court says so he remains our National Chairman” –