By Simon Ebegbulem

A former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, has admonished the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, not to listen to people he described as “palace jesters” and quit the office, which, he said, was ceded to the South, on May  21.

Owie, who urged some leaders of the party to stop brewing  crisis in the PDP, warned that unless the party put its house in order, it will be difficult to defeat the ruling APC government in 2019.

“I wish to genuinely urge my colleague, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, not to listen to the palace jesters around him who are encouraging him to sit tight as the National Chairman of our great party, the PDP. He should be a man of integrity and leave office on the 21st of May, 2016. Having been a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a two-time governor, he should know that there is no big deal in his being National Chairman.

“He should jettison the idea now and quit because the spirits of the teeming members of the party dead and living will petition the throne of Grace and the consequences won’t be good. For the word of God says in Proverbs 22 VS 28, never move an old boundary mark planted by your ancestors. The PDP is built on the principle of zoning. It is now the turn of the North to produce the President and the South to produce Chairman of our party”.