APC behind Sheriff’s actions, Makarfi committee says  

The caretaker committee put in place by the PDP headed by Sen Ahmed Markafi has said that the APC is sponsoring Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff to cause confusion within the PDP.

According to the committee members, the ruling party is pushing Sheriff to create confusion in the party as a way of weakening the opposition party in the coming governorship election in Edo and Ondo States.

Member of the committee in charge of Publicity, Prince Dayo Adeyeye  while addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, said the leadership crisis in the PDP was orchestrated by the APC in order to whittle down the effect of the PDP in the forthcoming elections in Edo and Ondo states.

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Prince Adeyeye who was joined at the event by Senator Ahmed Ningi, Senator Odion Ugbesia and Hajia Aisha Aliyu said that the “APC has contracted Sheriff and his cohorts to scuttle the chances of the PDP in the Edo governorship elections. We have credible intelligence that Sheriff had a meeting on Sunday night with an APC governor from North West, where it was agreed that he would be given full security and financial support to exacerbate the crisis in the PDP with the objective of preventing the PDP from presenting a candidate for the Edo governorship elections, or in the very least to prevent the PDP from offering a serious challenge to APC whose electoral fortunes has continued to nose-dive”.

“Up to a point, the police discharged their responsibilities satisfactory. However, later on without any justification whatsoever, Ali Modu Sheriff and the other renegades were allowed to gain entry into the secretariat, where they later proceeded to address a press conference.

“While we are still trying to understand the role of the police in the entire saga, it is curious that the police made no arrest of the thugs who openly brandished various dangerous weapons in and around the premises of the secretariat in full glare of the police. It is also curious that the police claimed to be acting on “orders from above” in allowing Sheriff and his cohorts to gain entry into the secretariat. If we may ask, who is the authority that issued the “orders from above?,” he queried.

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