PDP Crisis: Sheriff Lists Conditions for Peace, Says Party Constitution is Supreme

Factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Modu Sheriff, said at the weekend that he was open to reconciliation with the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the party, explaining, however, that he would only accept resolutions that were in conformity with the constitution of the party.

I am open to reconciliation. But whatever we are going to do must be grounded in the constitution of the party,” he told Thisday in an exclusive interview in Abuja.

The PDP has been immersed in crisis since the botched May 22, 2016 National Convention of the party, where the party practically broke into two distinct factions with Sheriff insisting that he remained the national chairman of the party, and refusing to recognise the Makarfi Committee.

Another convention slated for August 17, 2016 in Port Harcourt also failed as a deluge of conflicting court orders deepened the division within the party.

Two reconciliation committees, the Board of Trustees’ Prof. Jerry Gana-led Committee and the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Committee instituted by the National Executive Committee of the party, have been unable to resolve the logjam as both factions dug in their positions endangering the chances of the party in the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States.

Police Arrest Herbalist for Alleged Rape, N7.5m Fraud

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday arrested a 45-year-old herbalist identified as Ifatade Ademola for alleged rape and financial fraud of N7.5 million.

The suspect, who also doubles as a cab driver during the day, was arrested after the victim, who claimed she was hypnotised, raped and defrauded of N7.5 million between 2011 and 2014, reported the matter to the police.

The victim alleged that the suspect had used the money he swindled from her to build two bungalow houses in Lagos and Ado Ekiti, as well as bought two vehicles. The cars have been seized by the police.

While addressing newsmen at the state command's headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, the victim claimed the suspect had told her she was being haunted by a spirit husband and needed spiritual cleansing so that she can get married.

She said they started the spiritual cleansing but when he saw that the charm he used was no longer working, he conspired with two other men to rape her in the shrine.