The blame game continued yesterday in the troubled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A faction of the main opposition blamed the reopening of its national
secretariat for Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff on the police, which it
accused of taking sides.
Besides, the party accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of having a hand in its misfortune. The secretariat was sealed off by the police in June 2015 in the heat of
the tussle between Sheriff and the Ahmed Makarfi led Caretaker
Committee of the PDP for the control of the party.
However, acting on the strength of the judgment by the Port Harcourt
Division of the Court of Appeal that affirmed Sheriff as National
Chairman, the police last Thursday reopened the secretariat for Sheriff
and his team.
But the Makarfi camp has warned that the police action could cause a
breakdown of law and order, adding that the police acted in bad faith by
allowing Sheriff access to the facility.
At a media briefing in Abuja yesterday, the spokesman for the Makarfi
camp, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said the police chose to obey the law only
when it favoured Sheriff.
Adeyeye lamented that the police that refused to reopen the secretariat
for the Makarfi camp when it won the case against Sheriff at the Federal
High Court, reopened the building for Sheriff for winning at the
appellate court.
Apparently in sympathy with the Makarfi camp, a group of women party
members, staged a protest at the secretariat to denounce the reopening
of the facility.
The workers stayed away from the office, in solidarity with the Makarfi
group, which they insisted remained the authentic leaders of the party.
Adeyeye said the Makarfi camp had already filed an appeal at the Supreme
Court challenging the Appeal Court judgment and such, the police should
ensure that the secretariat remained sealed until the Supreme Court
delivers judgment on the matter.
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