The leadership of the PDP under Ahmed Makarfi has demanded that ousted national chairman Ali Modu Sheriff and Edo state proposed governorship candidate Hon. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen be arrested and prosecuted for flouting the orders of court.
They said this in a statement signed by Dayo Adeyeye a member of the caretaker committee.
This is in reaction to Sheriff declaring Iduoriyekemwen as his choice to run for PDP in the Edo governorship elections and even obtaining a certificate of return.
The PDP were not pleased with this and said, “We are shocked at the attitude of the former National Chairman of our great Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff who has become an authority in the Country with flagrant disobedience of the Nigerian Constitution, the Electoral Act and the PDP Constitution without being arrested or detained by security agencies. Is he above the law? If we may ask”
The Party said Justice Abdullah Mohammed Liman’s Judgment on the 4th of July, 2016 is superior to all other Court rulings, Ex-Parte Orders or Interlocutory Injunctions procured by Senator Sheriff and his co-travelers saying that his reliance on Justice Okon Abang’s ruling of Thursday, June 30th 2016 is an attempt to confuse unsuspecting members of the public as he has done in previous times.
“You will recall that Senator Sheriff in collaboration with some APC Governors and members invaded our Party Secretariat on Monday June 13, 2016 laying claims to a non-existing Court Order; and he has started again after a competent Court issued a Judgment upholding the decision of our National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State which constituted the PDP National Caretaker Committee to pilot the affairs of the Party for 90 days, and to conduct another Convention that will elect new officers of the Party. Following this, we are calling on the Police to do the needful by arresting Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, his co-travelers and Hon. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen for disobeying Court Judgment”.
They maintained that they will only recognize Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the PDP candidate for Edo state come September.