Former Peoples Democratic Party
governors and ex-ministers rejects an aircraft sent to them
by the embattled National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu
Sheriff, to convey them from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
One of our correspondents gathered that
the plane was sent to the former governors and other anti-Sheriff with
the aim of truncating the parallel national convention they planned for
Abuja today.
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The aggrieved members, under the name of
Concerned PDP Stakeholders, are holding their convention today at Area
11, Abuja, the same day that the Sheriff group is holding its own.
It was learnt that members of the
Sheriff group, who had waved aside the former governors as
inconsequential, became worried when they got to know the amount of
energy and work being put in place to conduct the Abuja convention.
A serving governor, who was in Port
Harcourt for the convention, told one of our correspondent on condition
of anonymity, that an aircraft was sent to Abuja on Friday evening to
convey the former governors and ministers to Rivers State.
He said that the aircraft was delayed
for more than three hours with none of the former governors and
ministers turning up at the airport.
Enewz247 gathered that the
governors of the party were troubled and were almost dropping Sheriff,
but for the intervention of Governors Nyesom Wike and Ayo Fayose of
Rivers and Ekiti states respectfully, who advised their colleagues
against taking such decision.
This is as a result of the ruling of a
Lagos court, stopping the party from conducting election into the
offices of the party’s national chairman, national auditor and national
secretary.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Governor,
Chief Nyesom Wike, had also insisted that the Port Harcourt convention
would hold regardless of any court injunction stopping the exercise.
Wike, who spoke with journalists at the
Government House in Port Harcourt, stated that the PDP had filed a
motion for a stay of execution of a court order the stopping the
convention.
Wike, who is Chairman of the Port
Harcourt PDP Convention Planning Committee, addressed journalists in
company with Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State, his counterpart
from Abia State, Chief Okezie Ikpeazu, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and
the Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio.
He said the PDP’s decision to go ahead with the convention would not amount to disobedience of any court order.
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