PDP BOT: Ali Modu Sheriff not qualified to lead PDP

Senator Ali Modu Sheriff

The members of the PDP’s Board of Trustees (BoT) have on Monday ended a meeting in Abuja stated that Mr. Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State, was not qualified to lead Nigeria’s major opposition party.

Today’s meeting was the first time the Board has met since PDP governors, led by Governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti and Nyesom Wike of Rivers respectively, last Tuesday foisted Mr. Sheriff on the party as national chairman.
Senator Walid Jibril, acting chairman of the PDP’s BoT, read the resolution after today’s meeting. He disclosed that the meeting was well attended, with more than 55 members in attendance.
Those who participated in the meeting included two former ministers, Jerry Gana and Ojo Madueke, as well as Stella Omu, Adamu Maina Waziri, former Senate President Adolphus Wabara, Abdullahi Kure and Shaibu Oyedokun.

Mr. Jibril declined to take questions from reporters after he read the board’s resolution, adding that the board was still going to meet.
However, in a reaction to the day’s development, Mr. Sheriff insisted that he had no intention of resigning. He made the declaration at the party's national secretariat when he received some members of the party from his home state of Borno.