The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the PDP has said the "forceful" entry of Senator Sheriff into the party’s secretariat was an illegal and criminal action.
The spokesman for the committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye in a statement last night explained that the keys to the secretariat were with the Board of Trustees (BoT) and were not handed over to Sheriff, wondering how he found his way into the secretariat.
The committee said Sheriff should be held responsible for any damage to the property or loss of document at the secretariat because of his action.
The statement called on the top echelon of the Police to prevent chaos by "flushing Sheriff and his team out" of the PDP secretariat in order for all parties to wait for the judgement of the Supreme Court which is the highest court in the land.
"The implication of this was that he broke into the secretariat which is a criminal offence. We also expected that Modu-Sheriff should have waited for the conclusion of the Appeal we filed at the Supreme Court before he forced himself in just like we held on when we got court judgement favouring us last year.
"We are condemning his action in totality and we view it as an affront on the rule of law. Given his act of illegality. The administrative staff as accounting officers were not around to see the event happen, and as the custodians of the property of the party, they refused to participate in the illegal entry made by Ali Modu-Sheriff.
"His action is provocative and is capable of causing another round of crisis in the party. We advise him in his own interest, to vacate the secretariat immediately," the statement said.
