Court sacks Sheriff as PDP chairman

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An Abuja High Court sitting at Apo on Wednesday sacked a factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.

Justice Valantine Ashi declared as “unconstitutional, null and void” the purported amendment of Article 47, Rule 6 of the PDP Constitution of 2012 at a special National Convention the party held on December 10 and 11, 2014, which led to the emergence of Sheriff.

The court voided the said amendment on the basis that there was no compliance with the mandatory provisions of Article 66 (2) and (3) of the PDP constitution.

Ashi said: “By reason of the above, the purported amendments introduced to the constitution on the aforesaid dates are hereby set-aside.

“All persons, individuals, servants or agents of PDP parading themselves as national officers of the PDP pursuant to the purported amendment, which has now been nullified, are hereby restrained from further parading themselves in these capacities.”

The judgment followed a suit, marked FCT/HC/CV/1867/2016, which was lodged before the court by a chieftain of the PDP in Ondo State, Chief Joseph Jero.

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