ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Peoples Party dissident and former senator, Safdar Abbasi, has opposed designation of Asif Ali Zardari as the party’s co-chairman and claimed the former president could not hold the office for two years after leaving the presidency.

In a statement on Tuesday, the former senator also termed a recent meeting of the PPP’s Central Executive Committee held in Karachi ‘illegal and unconstitutional’. He was of the opinion that all the decisions taken at the meeting were devoid of any legal or constitutional value.

Mr Abbasi said that at the moment the PPP was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan with three office-bearers and their positions had been challenged in the Islamabad High Court.

“Use of the name (title) of co-chairman by Mr Zardari after abandoning the party is both unethical and illegal,” he said.

However, a senior PPP leader said that Mr Zardari had not presided over any CEC meeting of the PPP, but it was a 'meeting of senior leaders’ of the party. Mr Abbasi further said that leaders who had attended the meeting were elected members of the PPP Parliamentarians because they had contested election on its ticket in the 2013 election.—Staff Reporter