While Makarfi accused Sheriff of reneging on his commitment to the peace initiative by President Goodluck Jonathan to explore political solution to the leadership crisis, Sheriff, apparently referring to Makarfi, said he would not allow those playing God within the party to destroy it.
According to Makarfi, Sheriff’s refusal to abide by the agreement that they should both resign their position necessitated the decision to lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court.
Senator Makarfi, who also disclosed that the party was in alliance with 15 other political parties ahead 2019, also faulted the recommendations of the Governor Seriake Dickson’s committee which said the party should hold it’s convention in June.
He said: When Dickson came to meet me on his committee’s report, I told him, you are one of the governors that met with former president Goodluck Jonathan and he spelt out the proposal of peace plan which he communicated to the NASS, communicated to us (caretaker committee) and other organs of the party.
‘’I asked him, are you now removing yourself from that? Why didn’t you table what you have before your colleagues? I also asked him whether he has taken pains to read the Port Harcourt Appeal court judgement and he said no.
That judgement is based on two premises which we did not accept. The first premise, which we did not accept in our appeal to the supreme Court, that the tenure of three members of NWC will expire in august this year and 18 will expire in July 2018.
“If you now propose to hold convention in June, what are you going to achieve? How will the June convention be different from last year’s in Portharcourt and he said he didn’t think about that.
“If he didn’t think about it, he shouldn’t do anything that will go against court of appeal judgment. What that judgement stipulates is a return to a status quo ante. What the court means is that all the national officers before May 21 must return to office. What Sheriff is doing is against the judgement, all his actions run foul against the judgement.
On his part, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, said he would not allow anybody to destroy the party.
Sheriff, who stated this when members of the party from Plateau State visited him in his office in Abuja, said no member of the party no matter how highly placed would be allowed to ‘play god’.
According to him, those loyal to the party will be given a level playing ground to realise their ambition, adding that the direction of the party would be determined by the people at the grass roots level.
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