"Fayose Lacked Proper Upbringing"- Ali Modu Sheriff On The Crisis Rocking PDP And Possible Solution.

The embattled factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu Sheriff has taken the outspoken governor of Ekiti State Ayodele Fayose to the cleaners once again.

In this fresh attack Sheriff described Fayose as someone who is highly destructive, disrespectful and lacked proper upbringing.

"You know the English man said people are the product of their environment. If you don’t grow up to respect your leaders; if you don’t grow up in a family where your father brings you up to respect elders; If you don’t grow up in a place where there is seniority in society; then in whatever you do there would be a problem. I don’t have to tell from the countenance of Fayose, the way and manner he insults everybody in this country, the way and manner he equates himself to God, you would know that he is not doing well. If we don’t get someone that would tell him that, then we would wake up one day and you would be surprised at what he will do. Imagine a sitting governor, however you disagree with the president of your country, you don’t go to the international community and work against the interest of your country. These are the kind of human beings we are talking about. So we need to stop people like Fayose from dictating the tune of a national party like the PDP."

He stated this while speaking on the crisis rocking the opposition party PDP, where he pointed at Fayose as the principal actor behind the party's problems and the possible solution to the crisis.

Sheriff believes that for reconciliation to take place and for PDP to enjoy peace IMPUNITY must be waved aside.

"I disagreed with Fayose, who is the principal actor in this crisis, over his desire to control the South-West. He wanted to control Osun, which wasn’t his state and is where the National Secretary is from. He wanted to give the whole structure of that party to Senator Iyiola Omisore, who lost a general election in that state. The leaders of the party in the state did not like that. We did the state congress twice at the instance of Fayose and twice the people he wanted lost the election and he said we must cancel it again."

So, I said to him: ‘My friend I am not your house boy. You can’t make me to do the wrong thing. If your friend wants to win election let him go and meet his people. But Ali Sheriff will not sit down in Abuja and write election results.’ 

He tried the same thing in Lagos. We cancelled the election in Lagos. I sent Governor Shekarau to go and conduct the congress. But still he said he didn’t want it because the people he wanted could not win election. He wanted to be a leader of the South-west region and put his cronies everywhere.

In Ogun we have senators and members of the House of Representatives. Anywhere there is no governor, the Senators and House of Representatives members are the leaders of the party, and they are the ones to determine where the party should go. Again, he wanted his own structure there. So, he began to fabricate stories that the National Chairman wanted to be president; the national chairman handpicked some people as his running mate.

All are complete lies! That was the beginning of the crisis. He said we must dissolve everything and get a caretaker and start all over as if he was God. Yes, he was one of those people who invited me to come and be chairman. But that doesn’t give him the right to say that he would destroy the party that was given to me on trust by Nigerians to rebuild," he submitted. 

-Excerpts From Senator Ali Modu Sheriff's Recent Interview With ThisDay.