More Troubles in PDP: Board of Trustees Sack Sheriff, Makarfi and Take Over Party Leadership

The crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) assumed a new dimension on Wednesday as the party’s Board of Trustees (BOT) declared that it had taken over the leadership.

The Chairman of the Board, Walid Jibrin, told members of staff of the party at its National Secretariat in Abuja that both the party’s National Working Committee led by ex-Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and the Interim National Caretaker Committee led by ex-Governor Ahmed Makarfi had been sacked.







This position will remain pending the resolution of the leadership tussle in the party.

Mr. Jibrin said that the action of the BoT became imperative in order not to allow any vacuum in the party’s operations as well as to resolve the leadership crisis within the party.

“Today, the BoT remains the only legal body now in the whole set up and that is why we are here to play our role,” Mr. Jibrin said.

“We are not here to take over the secretariat. We are here to perform our duties as enshrined in the constitution, hoping that our problems will be resolved soon.

“We, the BoT have taken it upon ourselves to ensure we play a great role in resolving the problems. We have gone very far in resolving them. We have made some contacts and consultations.
We are not here to cast blame on anybody. If it means to go to anybody to solve the problem, we will do so.’’

Mr. Jibrin, who said that the board would play its role without fair or favour, assured that the BoT would do its best to return normalcy to the troubled party. But will Sheriff agree to this new arrangement?