A senior advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome has accused ousted Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff of being an agent of the All Progressives Congress.
Mr. Ozekhome said this in a statement on Wednesday as he reacted to the triumph of the Ahmed Makarfi faction at the Supreme Court.
The lawyer stated that Sheriff’s goal was to destroy the PDP from within, saying that explains why he refused all entreaties to restore peace in the party.
This was also the reason why Sheriff went about criticising members of his party while he was praising the ruling party, he added.
Ozekhome said, “Sheriff and his faction were bent on destroying it (PDP) completely. It must have made the ruling APC green with envy in terms of the Sheriff’s huge capacity to exert maximum damage to the PDP’s corporate existence.
“Have you ever seen a supposed opposition party fraternising with and eulogising the ruling party on every step taken and never criticising it, yet tongue lashing its own party? Have u ever seen where a warring faction became allergic to a settlement that would throw its party up from its nadir of doldrums?”
Mr. Ozekhome lauded the apex court, which he described as the last defender of democracy, for the judgment.
The PDP would now be able to play its role as the main opposition party and put the APC on its toes, now that its crisis is over, he said.
“The apex court of Nigeria in its unanimous judgement today did two invigorating things: first, it saved Nigeria’s destructive and annihilating slide into an autocratic and despotic one-party state where absolutism and lack of opposition were already rearing their monstrous visages.
“Secondly, it saved, unarguably, the most potent opposition, the PDP, from self -destruction and internally generated volcanic eruption. There is no doubt that the Ahmed Makarfi and Modu Sheriff factions were apples and oranges when compared on an imaginary scale of genuineness.
“One was Japanese, the other, Taiwanese in terms of originality and imitation,” Ozekhome added.
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