Why we’re holding fresh gov primaries — Sheriff Group

THE PDP state leadership constituted by the former national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff yesterday vowed to go ahead with a fresh governorship primary today irrespective of penultimate Monday’s primary where Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu emerged candidate of the party. The insistence of the Sheriff aligned executive is irrespective of the assertions by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that it would not be monitoring it. Addressing journalists in Benin City yesterday, Ebenezer Alabi, a former chairman of the party in Ondo State who was appointed state chairman by Sheriff, insisted that Chief Dan Orbih’ s led PDP stands dissolved. Flanked by the secretary of the caretaker committee, Chief Edmund Zealiwe and others, Alabi narrated that “the leadership of our party under Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, invoked section 31, sub section 2E of the Constitution of PDP by suspending the state executive members of the PDP in Edo State led by Chief Dan Orbih, for three months and appointed a seven-man committee to superintend the affairs of the PDP in Edo State. “We are holding our governorship primaries on Wednesday, and the purpose of the primaries is to conform with the ruling of the court. You are aware that a lot of our members are in court as to who is the authentic leader of PDP in Nigeria because of the aborted convention we had in Port Harcourt. The court has made pronouncements. We are a democratic party, and I believe we must follow the law. - Vanguard