BREAKING: PDP In Disarray As Modu Sherrif Shuns Goodluck Jonathan, Others; Walks Out Of Reconcilliation Meeting

Crisis rocking the major opposition party may not end anytime soon as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday walked out of the party’s stakeholders meeting organised by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr. Sheriff, who got to the venue of the meeting a few minutes after Mr. Jonathan had delivered his remarks, walked out with members of his National Working Committee at about 4.15 p.m.
Some of the executive members with him were the Deputy National Chairman, Cairo Ojougboh; and the Publicity Secretary, Mikko Bernard.
Mr. Sheriff, addressing journalists before leaving, expressed displeasure for not being allowed to make the opening remarks.
“We are here for PDP stakeholders meeting and the PDP has only one national chairman, which is Ali Modu Sheriff.

“There is no PDP meeting that will take place under whatever arrangement that I will not open the session as national chairman. Today, I’m the most senior member of this party.”



Mr. Sheriff also said that he would not be party to anything outside the reconciliation report submitted to him by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa.
“I think Governor Dickson made a proposal for reconciliation that we have accepted. Some people want to deviate from this programme, to bring agenda which was not part of it.


“As national chairman of the party, what I told you in my office when Dickson brought the report is the only thing that we have agreed to at this moment.
“I will not be party to anybody using me to do another programme. I’m not going to be part of it,” Mr. Sheriff said.
Asked about the way forward for the party, Mr. Sheriff said: “As the National Chairman of PDP, I will move on with the programmes initiated by Gov. Dickson.
“We are continuing with that; anything outside that, I’m not a party to it.”
The meeting, however, continued after Mr. Sheriff’s walk-out.
Mr. Jonathan, speaking on the outcome of the meeting, regretted what happened during the meeting.

According to him, the issues will be addressed once a committee set up comes out with its own recommendations.
Mr. Jonathan said the committee was set up to find a political solution to the party’s leadership crisis.
He said the constitution of the committee was a major outcome of a stakeholders meeting of the party’s members held on Thursday.
Mr. Jonathan, who convened the meeting, said that the committee would be chaired by him and had two weeks to submit recommendations for consideration by the stakeholders.
He said that in his absence, the committee would be chaired by former vice president, Namadi Sambo or former senate president, David Mark.

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