Supreme Court sacks Sheriff, declares Makarfi authentic PDP leader

Ahmed Makarfi
Ahmed Makarfi

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sacked Ali Sheriff as the National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

The court also declared Ahmed Makarfi, the caretaker committee chairman, as the authentic leader of the PDP, Nigeria’s largest opposition party.

Read our live updates of the ruling here.

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  • Cypo

    Congratulations to PDP and best wishes to all the authentic members of the Party. PDP… Power to the People!!

    • klarity

      @disqus_TUwln8DxKQ:disqus

      THIS JUDGMENT means PDP party will win the 2019 presidential election without a doubt.
      The mole in the party called Ali Sheriff is nullified and gone forever. The PDP can now do
      the needful and pick up the slack as the useless and corrupt contraption called the APC
      incumbent government wobbles and fumbles in ignorance and eith utter incompetence!

      • Acting Citizen of Nigeria

        I agree with you. But there’s a serious problem here – watch out for a massive spike in boko haram activities. The Supreme court has just sent someone back to his base – a base which his fiddling with PDP had distracted him from.

        • Akinde Olaiya

          @actingcitizenofnigeria:disqus

          Another thing is that Premium Times is a wicked newspaper for the wicked and by the wicked.
          Can Premium Times swear that they don’t know anything about Musiliu Obanikoro who has
          been prostrating at the gate of Bola Tinubu since April, to be allowed to defect to APC as
          errand boy – the same APC party that Musiliu Obanikoro’s son defeated in a past local
          government election in Lagos state?

          If Premium Times is fully aware of this fact why
          did Premium Times not phone Musiliu Obanikoro before publishing this judgment
          by the Supreme Court, so that Musiliu Obanikoro can now stand up and stop the
          mess of disgracing himself by wailing at the gate Bourdillon Road to be allowed
          inside to kiss the feet of Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

          • Acting Citizen of Nigeria

            Hahahaha. You no go kill me with laugh o. Koro and all of them traitors go dey shit inside their pants now for the political suicide they’ve committed, just like the people and the military in the North-East would know that a storm is coming.

      • aboki

        NIGERIANS would decide come 2019 through ballot papers one MAN one vote not by internet or premium time.

      • KBE

        May God punish him and Cairo forever. Gulak and Co same thing.

  • Agba

    The damage has been done,pdp will find it difficult to gain ground,because pdp and apc are dead party In nigeria of today.

    • J.J Johnson

      @disqus_TeKEbTtJ8r:disqus

      The ICPC anti-corruption agency was on a distinguished road by declaring Raji Fashola wanted on 3rd September
      2015 with very hard facts suggesting that Raji Fashola raided the Lagos state treasury whilst holding public office.
      Raji Fashola received 3.2 trillion Naira in cash as tottal gross revenues in his eight years regime of sheer thefts,
      but crookedly wrote down 2.43 trillion Naira on the Lagos state account books, thereby disappearing a huge
      and whopping sum of 800 billion Naira; whilst ignorant and innumerate Lagosians kept on waving brooms
      in the afternoon like freshly cursed lunatics.

      In tandem with his confederates, notably Supo Shasore, the Raji Fashola crooked team went on a plundering
      mission to put an end to the future of Lagos state – which immediately became a bloodbath; since stealing
      begets stealing and theft begets violence as a non-regulated criminal activity. Twenty-eight (28) million
      youths now roam the streets all across Lagos and in the 35 states in Nigeria as un-employed youths
      in consequence of Raji Fashola’s type of plunder.

    • suleiman

      This is not necessarily true. It is the same individuals from PDP and APC that would form the new party you are anticipating. It is not about name but the individuals that control the party. I hope you know that the current APC as constituted consists of nearly 70% of former PDP members.

    • KBE

      You are in for a rude shock. This is the beginning of a new dawn. PDP LETS GO

  • Eko Group

    @disqus_TUwln8DxKQ:disqus

    A sum of ₦800 billion
    is screamingly missing in Lagos state till today, and likely stolen under the
    direction of Raji Fashola between 2007 and 2015, but the retarded populace in
    Lagos state were long brainwashed and programmed to utter curses only on the
    rival party – PDP – whilst the real APC treasury thieves haul away the state
    treasury as private property, for their own nuclear families. Judgment day has
    come with this Supreme Court decision removing the hurdle on the way to a
    national alternative with a reformed PDP party to defeat the rogue APC
    government of thieves; dullards and school certificate forgers.

  • suleiman

    Everybody knows that Sheriff was sponsored by the APC to destabilize the party. Now that it is game over for the enemies of democracy, it is time to rebuild the party and take over the leadership of this country by 2019. PDP remains the only viable opposition to the crass called APC. I do hope that PDP would put its act together and stop the nonsense of factionalization. I also hope that PDP would embrace internal democracy and avoid the errors of candidate imposition which led to its losing the elections in 2015. We know that Sheriff and his cohorts would never give up. The will devise another means of stalling the party. I wont’t be surprise if he goes to court for another flimsy or ridiculous excuse. My candid advise, to the party is that it should not do anything to allow Sheriff another opportunity to go to court. It is time for the party forget about the corrupt and criminal individuals now running to the APC to cover their crimes and focus on 2019. A word for the wise is sufficient.

  • Imma Eboroh

    Premium Times Editor,

    What Ahmed Makarfi must do

    This is not the time to campaign against the incumbent APC government. The jury is no longer out.
    The verdict is in that APC is the worst government Nigeria has ever had. The ongoing economic
    recession has already convinced most Nigerians to flee the wrecking ship of the APC Islamists.

    What PDP must do first of all is to REFORM their own party by excluding tainted members from
    public office henceforth. That is the first item on the agenda. Nigerians want to see a reformed
    PDP party and the only way to prove that ethical makeover is to set down the rules barring
    any PDP member who is indicted or attainted with crime of whatever nature from seeking
    public office on the party’s ticket. That is the way to go to draw the necessary contrast
    against a mentally bereft APC party that’s studded with thieves and criminals in power.

    • thusspokez

      What PDP must do first of all is to REFORM their own party by excluding tainted members from public office henceforth.

      In the context of defection of corrupt politicians, a gain for the APC is a gain for the PDP — it reduces the number of corrupt people in the PDP but increase those in the APC. Further, as part of the reform process, PDP must also enshrine in its constitution, forbidding any previous defector from rejoining it.

  • KBE

    The happiest day.

    • 2017 Cassandra

      @disqus_GzuPNcXWMN:disqus

      IF A MILITARY COUP IS NOT STAGED ON SCHEDULE, PDP WILL WIN BY LANDSLIDE IN 2019.

      APC IS A COALITION OF ILLITERATES WITH NO SENSE OR GUMPTION AND DIRECTIONLESS.

      • reposte by popular demand

        @disqus_GzuPNcXWMN:disqus

        Condolence to General Obasanjo

        Where’s General Obasanjo who said PDP party is dead? General Obasanjo can now see that political analysis is not given to him or given to any Tom, Dick and Harry. General Obasanjo got zero percent in
        public policy analysis because he’s mentally dishonest. Anyone possessed of average intelligence would understand that for PDP to die APC must be growing inversely. General Olusegun Obasanjo does not
        think much. After the defeat of APC by 62% in Oshun state last week it should have been obvious.

        Like an ostrich which buried its head in the sands, he could not see the APC elephant just rotting.
        A party like APC which scorns thinking and thinks development is common sense, is a tragedy.
        As a tragedy the near-illiterate APC party threw Nigeria into the worst recession within a year.
        Obasanjo does not know that as APC fails and implodes, PDP party will naturally be vivified.
        Knowledge eludes General Obasanjo on what he endeavours without relevant schooling.

        • Last Patriot

          @disqus_GzuPNcXWMN:disqus

          Once Muhamadu Buhari ultimately quits office at whatever time, federal boards must be dissolved;
          including N.T.A, FRCN, NCC, NNPC and NBC. President Buhari stuffed federal boards with invalid
          and mostly unthinking appointees. The result is utter mediocre performance all round. No federal
          agency is exceptional today or seen to be working with any sense.

          An immediate audit must follow and all indicted board members; chairmen and directors, must be
          convicted and then sent to prison. That first step will send a strong signal to Nigerians and to the
          international community that at last a new and purposeful government has come on board after
          Muhamadu Buhari’s nonsense, laxity and uselessness.

  • Kickboxer

    BRAINLESS BUHARI’S, OTA BABOON OBASANJO’S, & APC’S DEVILISH PLANS HAVE FAILED!!

  • GEJ FOREVER

    ONE THING NIGERIANS NOW KNOW …… APC IS NO GO AREA ……. FAR WORSE THAN PDP

  • George

    Nigerians congratulation and a big thank you to my brothers and friends Fayose, Fani-kayode I love you all and God loves you more.

    My happiest day ever since this animal buhari came in. Thanks to judges. More hopes are ahead.

    A big shame on Sheriff with his APC backers.

  • George

    Hallelujah Jehovah is God and his Son Jesus Christ lives forever.

    OBJ must die