Edo PDP Rejects Suspension of State Exco By Ali Sheriff, Describing It As Laughable

The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the suspension of its state executive committee by the Ali Modu Sheriff leadership of the party, describing as “laughable”.

The Sheriff-led faction of the PDP had on Saturday reportedly announced the suspension of the state officers and replaced them with an eight-member caretaker committee, with Chief Ebenezer Alabi as Chairman and Zealiwe? Edmund as Secretary.

Sheriff and a former National Secretary of the PDP, Professor Wale Oladipo had in a statement cited “various petitions deriving from allegations of irregularities, arising from the last state congresses that sought to elect (an) executive committee for the chapter”.

But the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chris Nehikhare, told our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday evening that the former Governor of Bornu State had no constitutional right to suspend the state’s leadership.

Nehikhare, however, noted that the Edo chapter would remain indivisible.

He said, “He has no right to do what he is doing. But we know he is being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress. The most interesting part of it is that even those he picked as members of his caretaker committee are all flying documents of the illegal kangaroo committee.
“It is laughable and he is turning himself into a comedian in the mode of Baba Sala.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that the committee set up by Sheriff to conduct a fresh primary election, ahead of the September 10 governorship polls, has arrived in Benin, the state capital.