The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Wednesday, said the party’s national secretariat in Wadata Plaza, Abuja would re-open before Friday.
Sheriff said this when he received some PDP leaders from the South West geopolitical zone who paid him a visit in his office in Abuja.
The party’s national secretariat had been under lock since after its National Convention held on May 20, 2016.
The police said the action was to avoid breakdown of law and order as a result of the leadership tussle between Sheriff-led and Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee.
Sheriff said he had commenced legal process that would allow the party leaders and workers to access the secretariat, currently under lock.
He added: “Between now and Friday, we will move into our national secretariat.
“We have transmitted the necessary document to the security agencies, including the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Services, to reopen it.”
Sheriff, who was confirmed as the authentic national chairman of the PDP by the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt on February 17, said he was not in the party to remain its national chairman.
He said: “My mission is to rebuild the party and bring it back to its 1999 position.
“I am not here to remain as chairman forever.
“I will leave after the convention.
“We will conduct a credible convention and whoever wants to be PDP leader can contest in the convention.”
Sheriff urged PDP leaders to go back to their respective wards and work for the party.
He also pleaded with governors to join him in rebuilding the party, saying they were
leaders in their own right.
The PDP South West Zonal Chairman, Makanjuola Ogundipe, who led the team on the visit, said they were in Sheriff’s office to express the zone’s support for him.
Ogundipe said the visit was also to advice Sheriff to use his victory at the court to reunite everybody in the party irrespective of what happened earlier.
He added: “You must see yourself as father to all.
“Now that you have been saddled with the leadership responsibility, we want to urge you to make sure that the party is revived within 40 days.”
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