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“The truth is that some of the governors actually fell for it and they were already scheming along with him without knowing there were five of them fighting for the same ticket.”

Fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors had to dump Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman at the May 21 convention ground in Port Harcourt.
A high-ranking chieftain who gave an insight into why the governors fell out with Sheriff, revealed that the governors had settled for Sheriff as chairman based on promises he made to finance the party’s 2019 presidential campaign with N40 billion.

He was also said to have promised the governors that he would deploy five private jets for the party’s electioneering campaign in 2019.

The PDP chieftain, who is a key stakeholder in the North East zone, however said the governors started to suspect Sheriff’s motives a few days to the May 21 convention.
The party chief said yesterday on condition of anonymity that the governors later found that Sheriff had sold them a dummy. Said the source: “Contrary to his promise to fund the party, they discovered that the ex-PDP chair was spending the party’s lean resources on the few party activities he held during his tenure.

“Sheriff also exploited the ambition of some of the party’s sitting governors, particularly the governors in the southern states, to become the party’s vice presidential candidate in 2019.
“The ex-party chairman had approached five of the governors in separate secret meetings with promises of the party’s 2019 vice presidential ticket, with him as presidential candidate.

“The truth is that some of the governors actually fell for it and they were already scheming along with him without knowing there were five of them fighting for the same ticket.”

The party chieftain said it was then that the governors realised that the N40 billion and five campaign jets promised by Sheriff were a bait to become chairman and presidential candidate.
But in a swift reaction, Sheriff said the allegations against him were far fetched and that the governors themselves know the truth.



His Media Adviser, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, who spoke yesterday, said the governors were only being clever by half. According to him, virtually all the PDP governors from the south were scheming to become vice presidential candidate in the 2019 election, and it was the scrabble for the ticket that tore them apart.

He refuted the claim that Sheriff did not spend his personal resources on the party, insisting that all the governors, except the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who also has a plane at his disposal, made use of Sheriff’s private jets on one occasion or the other.

Bwala said: “Almost all the governors from the South want to be Vice President in 2019, and that was the source of the conflict. It was this bitter struggle that brought the party to its present situation.
“And if they were expecting to get N40 billion from Sheriff just to make him chairman, then they have lost the moral ground to complain for not getting the money as easily as they had wished. They should wait until Sheriff himself is ready to tell the entire story exactly the way it is.”
Commenting on the lingering crisis, another party source said that it was a court case filed against the party with Sheriff as one of the plaintiffs that finally broke the camel’s back.
A few days to the botched Port Harcourt convention, Sheriff and two members of the party’s sacked National Working Committee (NWC) had approached a court in Lagos to halt the convention.
Plaintiffs in the suit were the ex-National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo; ex National Auditor, Adewole Adeyanju and Sheriff. The suit specifically sought to stop election into the offices of National Secretary, National Auditor and National Chairman.
The plaintiffs had averred that their tenure would not be expiring until 2018 and that their positions were not vacant.
But when the governors and other party stakeholders confronted Sheriff on the suit, he claimed that his name was included as one of the plaintiffs without his consent, a claim that the party chiefs took with a pinch of salt.
“That showed the governors the red light. They discovered at the last minute that they were dealing with a man that was ready to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds at the same time”, the party source said.

Jirate:
So that they too, including Buhari can join him in commissioning the "First Flyover" in Ekiti State when ever the project is Completed.

Jonathan appears to have looked the other way, while our soldiers were fighting with bare hands and our girls and boys were being kidnapped or murdered in their school dormitories.

We didn’t take Nigeria back from Boko Haram only to hand it over to any other criminal franchise.

But I know that the country is certainly a more promising place today than when he made that visit last year

Tolexander:
He appointed him and sacked him. Hence, no comment.

Beremx:
Is it not high time Buhari sacked this man?

BenBruce4Presdt:
Your write up is sincere and I have not accused you of anything, just that your sentence got me thinking..

Please, on a clear terms help me make sense of this, "The Fulani Herdsmen Menace is not the same as this and you people know it". Then my understanding with you shall be complete..

BenBruce4Presdt:
You see the challenge I have with peep like you is trying so hard to sort for word to justify criminality, yes called it by its name but you are still looking for ways to inform me that at least I could in some ways reason with it and maybe find it in my heart to accommodate them..

"The Fulani Herdsmen Menace is not the same as this and you people know it". I don't know it, but I would be grateful if you ll clarify!

Criminality is same. .No matter how you flip it..

If you are gonna condemn the activities of NDA and expect me to seat at par with you on who is a Criminal.. Then you are wrong, so you can't make any form of excuses for anyone else no matter you reason..

Once they did not wait for the lousy laws to take it course then I can't continue talking abt it..

waternogetenemy:
Stop contradicting yourself, everything u said can equally be applied to u. Wen u point a finger 4 are pointed back at u.


Simply respect freedom of press and expression and keep mute or u censor the site cutting out all NDA and Biafra news.

Whilst u only run Boko Haram and OPC news.

waternogetenemy:
Vanguard should start a forum, am done with this site. Na Yoruba get vanguard but they cannot be bought to limit freedom of expression or hide news or not publish story.

Seun is still a child.

chukwudi44:
But some of your supporters are demonizing the SS/SE because of a few "bad eggs" amongst them.I have even read comments where some people suggested genocide on the niger-delta,why didn't the op also talk about that!!! I wil say it again,If Omenka wants to stop the NDA,he would do better joining thE army and fighting in the creeks than coming to nairaland to whine and cry about people freely expressing themselves!!

chukwudi44:
how ome none of you of you are opening threads to condemn the Fulani herdsmen? WEe had peeps like Joborskill,passingshot,Dabuilt tech supporting those animals and you people kept silent about it!!! Banning people on aniraland would not solve the problem!! There are lots of other better and more popular sites than nairaland.Nigeria has a very big challenges, call on the president to address them and not all this knee jerk responses

QuotaSystem:
We are watching.

Firefire:
Patapata lan foju, kumokumo lan detee, Oju afonfo tan Ija lo ma un da le, ton ba un pe bi ti nri wa, bo tin ri le ri yi ooo

Ki ni Omo eniyan fe se la ti te eyin eda adari hunrun lorun ?

Mr. Chukwu Ibrahim, oo ga oooo.

Cc: Mo, you see...

GudluckIBB:
I don't understand this craze of showing off pregnancy.

Nigerians always want to be like oyinbo.

DropShot:
You know nothing. I mean NOTHING!

Nigeria was fastest economy in Africa on paper and because of oil sale.

And what do you expect when we lost a very large chunk of oil income due to price crash of crude?

It's the same thing with all economies that largely depend on oil for it's survival.

Think deep.

StepTwo:
You couldnt have murdered it any better.

Well murder Bro.

Babacele:
what if the president jegad this orubebe of a sinister plan nko? nobody can predict maigaskia.

Firefire:
Too bad...
"We were in the middle of something when the picketing team came in and forced us out of the office. Initially, we wanted to resist them but they brought out canes and started dragging us out of the office.”

Firefire:
Then why ask for his voice when you think his 'silence is in disgrace' ?

GEJ, Please continue to be "disgracefully silent". It's more honorable.


APC, Party of Professional liars and career fraudsters.

Tolexander:
eleyi tun wa omo ti o ma la lepon.
ko mo boya okunrin ni arabinrin yen bayen o!

SMH!

Firefire:
Why ?