PDP sacks Alimodu Sheriff, appoints Makarfi, Obi as caretaker committee Chairman, Secretary respectively

Just hours after Alimodu Sheriff declared the Port Harcourt Convention suspended because of several court cases yet to be resolved, party delegates at the Port Harcourt convention decided to go ahead with the convention. The delegates sacked current party chairman Alimodu Sheriff and immediately dissolved the National Working Committee of the party and approved the nomination of former Governors of Kaduna state and Anambra state, Ahmed Makarfi and Peter Obi as Caretaker committee chairman and secretary respectively. The two officers were sworn in immediately.

Other members of the committee are Senator Ugbesia, Sen Abdul Ningi, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, Aisha Aliyu, Barrister Usman.

In attendance at the PDP convention was all the PDP state governors, Deputy snate president Ike Ekweremadu, former Senate President, David Mark, Senate Minority leader Godswill Akpabio and others.