We Don’t Need Modu Sheriff To Reform PDP, Jonathan Men Warn

“We do not need Sheriff to reform PDP. And he cannot actually lead the party for some obvious reasons. He is not a team player and he has many controversies surrounding his style of politics.
This is the position of a group of leading members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are loyal to former President Goodluck Jonathan after a meeting in Abuja overnight to review the current development in the party.
The group, made up of mainly ministers who served under Jonathan vowed to resist the imposition of Modu Sheriff on the party, warning: “we are parting ways with ex-President Jonathan if he is adamant on Sheriff. The battle line is drawn. We respect our principal, but he got it wrong this time around.”
The spokesman for former ministers in Jonathan’s administration, Dr. Suleiman Abubakar, in a terse statement in Abuja, said: “Our rescue mission has failed, the redemption boat has capsized and our journey to recovery has come to an end.
“Jonathan can afford to take the risk with Sheriff because he has reached a dead end politically. We will not allow the ex-President to ruin our own future. Public perception does not favour Sheriff.”
“Whosoever partook in the decision does not mean well for the party and democracy in Nigeria. It is obvious the fifth columnists have hijacked the party and they are hell bent on sinking it deeper into irrecoverable level of the pit.
“Some of us would rather review our membership than subject ourselves to selfish interests of a cabal whose main goal is political profiteering. After all our umbilical cord is not tied to any party.
“We knew the NWC and the governors have a different agenda. With Sheriff, the PDP cannot go far in 2019. Jonathan and these leaders should listen to the Board of Trustees (BOT) members.”
Meanwhile, the new chairman of a once largest party in Africa has said in Umuahia during the thanksgiving service by Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu that he will lead the party to victory in 2019.
“We are here today, we are starting from here, and we are going to Aso Rock, Insha Allah by 2019.
“We will head from here and we will do it together. This  my long cap is prepared to lead my colleagues and brothers to Aso Rock, Insha Allah.
“By the grace of Allah, nothing will deter this party from going to Aso Rock in 2019. By the time we put down our master-plan I am sure they (APC) will go back to where they came from. And Insha Allah, nothing will stop us.
”From what I have seen in the stadium, it is clear that his (Ikpeazu’s) election is the election of the people. It is election that God has destined. It is not election that we call it election by air, election by writing. This is the election of the people.” [myad]