of the Ondo state governorship election
which the party’s candidate, Mr Eyitayo
Jegede lost to Rotimi Akeredolu of the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Modu-Sheriff faction have
blamed the PDP’s failure in the Edo and
Ondo governorship elections on
impunity of its leaders and their lack of
respect for the party’s constitution.
The faction’s vice chairman, Mr Cairo
Ojougbo, told journalists in Abuja that
leaders of the PDP have refused to
learn, even though the party has been
paying the price of impunity since 2015.
Agents of Darkness
Meanwhile, the Makarfi faction of the
PDP has described the Senator Ali Modu
Sheriff-led faction of the party as
agents of darkness , insisting that the
former Governor of Borno State is not
the Chairman of the party.
In a statement on Monday, the
opposition party said its attention had
been drawn to “another set of garbage
and tissues of lies put together by the
discredited loyalists of Senator Ali
Modu-Sheriff in the name of a press
statement”.
The party stated that the ‘group’, which
it described as non-PDP members, had
in the statement tried to sustain it’s
illegal claim to the leadership of
the Party, but insisted that it would not
leave them to continue to deceive
Nigerians.
The party’s division became obvious
when the former chairman of the party
Ali Modu Sheriff was removed at a
convention in Port Harcourt.
After that convention, the embattled
leader secured several court orders that
further scuttled unity in the party.
The extent of the division was further
seen when the party produced two
different candidates for the Edo State
and Ondo State governorship elections.
In the latest election in Ondo, the party
lost to the All Progressives Congress, a
defeat that had been largely attributed
to the division in the party
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