National chairman of the PDP, Ali-Modu Sherif on Monday in Abuja dismissed calls for his resignation by\u00a0 those aggrieved about his emergence.<\/p>\n
The PDP Rescue Group,\u00a0 and the Board of Trustees have both asked he stepped aside.<\/p>\n
The PDP Ministers Forum are meeting on Tuesday in Abuja to take a position on Modu-Sheriff.<\/p>\n
Sheriff, in an interview with newsmen after he took over at Wadata Plaza said he was not going to resign his appointment as the chairman of the party.<\/p>\n
He took jabs at Wilberforce Juta of the Rescue Group and Mohammed Wakil saying “both of them lost out in their bid to be chairman and now want me to resign”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe leadership of this party in their wisdom asked me to lead.
\n\u201cIf the National Executive Council (NEC) of this party collectively asks me to leave, I will leave.
\n\u201cI will reposition this party and take it to election within a time frame decided by the leaders of this party to conduct a credible, effective congress that will stand the test of time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On when his tenure as PDP National Chairman would elapse, Sheriff said that the party\u2019s leadership would take the decision.
\nSheriff also made clarification on his appointment contrary to the party\u2019s constitution that for anybody to be appointed or elected as PDP official, he must have spent three years in the party.
\nHe said that PDP had earlier granted him a waiver on the matter.
\nSheriff added that he did not regret all the political parties he was part of its formation including the All Progressives Congress (APC).
\n\u201cI was the founding father of the UNCP, and I was also one of the founding fathers of APC.\u201d
\nHe added that he left the APC because he is a man of principles.
\n\u201cThere are issues that I cannot discuss on the pages of newspapers because I am an elder statesman.
\n\u201cI am a man of principles and I stand by my principles.
\n\u201cThe same instruments we used to make APC attractive to all Nigerians, we are going to use it for PDP now.\u201d
\nHe added that his assignment was to talk with every founding father of the party and those who had left because they were aggrieved.
\nResponding on the allegation of his link with Boko Haram, Sheriff said nobody in the position of authority who knows the truth has ever accused or linked him to the sect.
\n\u201cNo court of competent jurisdictions has ever linked me to Boko Haram.\u201d
\nSheriff added that he was not only the first target of Boko Haram, but his younger brother was also killed by the terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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