Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and chairman of the 2016 PDP national convention planning committee, has disclosed that ditching Ali Modu Sheriff as the acting national chairman was to save the party from “dying”.
Ali Modu Sheriff, former governor of Borno state and a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was surprisingly “sacked” as the acting chairman on Saturday and replaced Ahmed Makarfi, former governor of Kaduna state.
Wike said on Saturday that Sheriff’s leadership was destabilising the party.
“All along, the crisis has been about the former acting chairman whose emergence was strongly opposed,” he said, according to a statement sent from his media office on Sunday.
“This is destabilising the party and so we had to let him go. What is important is the party and not the individual. No sacrifice is too much for anyone to make as far as PDP is concerned.
“We will not allow the PDP to die or suffer divisions under our watch. History will never forgive us if we watch the party die.”
Wike said party leaders would work towards maintaining unity among all members.
