Sherrif: PDP Lost Adamawa Due to Impunity
Today the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has blamed the party's loss of Adamawa State
in the 2015 general election to recklessness actions.
Sheriff who spoke when he received a delegation
from the state chapter of the party also warned party members in state against
a repeat of the mistakes.
"I know we would lose the state because of the level of
imposition of candidates. Somebody who is not recognised by his people was
made a candidate. Everything about politics is grassroots," he stated.
The national chairman who said PDP has no reason to lose Adamawa
State because the party is entrenched in the state, however, stated that what
happened to PDP in the state before the general elections happened to the party
in other parts of the North.
He assured the Adawawa PDP stakeholders that he
would neither impose anybody on them nor be manipulated by anyone, adding that
the forthcoming congresses would be conducted in a transparent manner.
"Adamawa is a complicated state. I assure you
that nobody from National Working Committee (NWC) will do wrong thing there. The
congress will not be manipulated by anybody. I am interested in what happens in
the Northeast," he noted.
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who
agreed with Sherrif, however asserted that: "What happened to Adamawa State before the election is akin to what happened
to most parts of Nigeria.
That is why today we are in opposition."
Earlier, the state chairman of the party, Mr. Joel
Madaki; Senator Grace Folashade Bent and other members of the delegation had
congratulated Sheriff on his emergence as the party charman, describing him as
a tested hand whose leadership qualities, if brought to bear on PDP, will
reposition the party.
Senator Bent told the national chairman that what he required
was transparency, fearlessness and wisdom to administer the party while
promising that the state party will continue to pray for him to succeed.
Bent, who narrated the party woes, stated that: "The
state chapter of party has been whipped, wounded but not allowed to cry,"
adding that the chapter had continued without consideration to leave the party.
He told him that Ambassador Wilberforce Juta, Professor
Jubril Aminu and Zainab Amina, were also
in support of his leadership experience.
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