Sheriff’s Loyalists Dump PDP For Mega Party

Loyalist of the ousted chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff in the South Western part of the country, have defected to the Mega Party of Nigeria, MPN.

Sheriff’s supporters dumped the PDP over claim that the caretaker committee of the PDP, led by Ahmed Makarfi, was not magnanimous in victory.

You will recall that the Supreme Court declared the Ahmed Makarfi led caretaker committee as the authentic leadership of the party.

Makarfi, in his victory speech had said that the party was willing to embrace its members that had defected to other political parties.

The breakaway faction, led by a former PDP chairman in Ondo State, Mr. Ebenezer Alabi, and the Director General, Omo Ilu Foundation (the mobilisation arm of Buruji Kashamu political organisation), Leke Adekoya, told reporters at the MPN office in Ibadan that the PDP was filled up with “vampires that they cannot co-habit with,” hence the need for the move.

Alabi said, “The purpose of the struggle was to stamp out impunity in the party. We thought the Supreme Court judgment would teach us a good lesson but it was not so. The PDP has now been taken over by vampires that we cannot co-habit with.

“We, who believe in the leadership of Sheriff, have therefore decided to move en masse to join forces with the Mega Party of Nigeria. It was registered in 2010 as Mega Progressives Party but we are transforming it to the new name to show the strength. The name will change officially next week,” he added.