A former member of the House of Representatives, Dr Haruna Yerima, has claimed that Ali Modu Sheriff will destroy the PDP if he is not allowed to be chairman.
Yerima stated that Sheriff had been working for PDP for so long and as such, will not give up the chairmanship tussle.
According to him, though the former Borno governor was in the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), he was working for PDP for 16 years before briefly joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Sheriff will fight to the extent that either PDP allows him to be the chairman or he destroys the party,” he said.
He added: “During the 2007 and 2011 presidential elections, Sheriff worked against Muhammadu Buhari and openly campaigned for the PDP candidates.
“Aso Rock was his second home under former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.
“Under a peculiar arrangement, the PDP in Abuja looked the other way while Sheriff dealt with its own members in Borno State.
“During the third term saga, Sheriff was one of the arrowheads of the movement, even though he was in ANPP and it had a presidential candidate.
“Sheriff’s influence in PDP was never in doubt, having nominated his sister-in-law as minister in PDP administration.”