{"id":49695,"date":"2016-05-29T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49695"},"modified":"2016-05-29T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T23:30:34","slug":"modu-sheriff-hoodwinked-pdp-governors-n40b-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/modu-sheriff-hoodwinked-pdp-governors-n40b-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u00a0 Modu-Sheriff hoodwinked PDP Governors with N40b promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors had to dump Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman at the May 21 convention ground in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A high-ranking chieftain who gave an insight into why the governors fell out with Sheriff, revealed that the governors had settled for Sheriff as chairman based on promises he made to finance the party\u2019s 2019 presidential campaign with N40 billion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was also said to have promised the governors that he would deploy five private jets for the party\u2019s electioneering campaign in 2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP chieftain, who is a key stakeholder in the North East zone, however said the governors started to suspect Sheriff\u2019s motives a few days to the May 21 convention.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party chief said yesterday on condition of anonymity that the governors later found that Sheriff had sold them a dummy. Said the source: \u201cContrary to his promise to fund the party, they discovered that the ex-PDP chair was spending the party\u2019s lean resources on the few party activities he held during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSheriff also exploited the ambition of some of the party\u2019s sitting governors, particularly the governors in the southern states, to become the party\u2019s vice presidential candidate in 2019.<br \/>\n\u201cThe ex-party chairman had approached five of the governors in separate secret meetings with promises of the party\u2019s 2019 vice presidential ticket, with him as presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe truth is that some of the governors actually fell for it and they were already scheming along with him without knowing there were five of them fighting for the same ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party chieftain said it was then that the governors realised that the N40 billion and five campaign jets promised by Sheriff were a bait to become chairman and presidential candidate.<br \/>\nBut in a swift reaction, Sheriff said the allegations against him were far fetched and that the governors themselves know the truth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His Media Adviser, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, who spoke yesterday, said the governors were only being clever by half. According to him, virtually all the PDP governors from the south were scheming to become vice presidential candidate in the 2019 election, and it was the scrabble for the ticket that tore them apart.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He refuted the claim that Sheriff did not spend his personal resources on the party, insisting that all the governors, except the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who also has a plane at his disposal, made use of Sheriff\u2019s private jets on one occasion or the other.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bwala said: \u201cAlmost all the governors from the South want to be Vice President in 2019, and that was the source of the conflict. It was this bitter struggle that brought the party to its present situation.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd if they were expecting to get N40 billion from Sheriff just to make him chairman, then they have lost the moral ground to complain for not getting the money as easily as they had wished. They should wait until Sheriff himself is ready to tell the entire story exactly the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the lingering crisis, another party source said that it was a court case filed against the party with Sheriff as one of the plaintiffs that finally broke the camel\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Www.Today.ng&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors had to dump Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman at the May 21 convention ground in Port&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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