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PDP woes linger as Sheriff storms out of Jonathan’s peace meeting
The hope of peace returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by political means may have been deferred again as the national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Thursday stormed out of the peace meeting called by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
The meeting which ended in a stalemate following a heated argument involving Sheriff, the party’s Governors Forum chairman and Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose , his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike and the National Assembly caucus.
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While Senator Sheriff had maintained he would continue as PDP chairman till after the party’s convention, the two governors and the National Assembly caucus refused and insisted he must step down to allow for a neutral person to lead the party to the convention.
Sheriff, who insisted that he must be recognised as the party’s chairman for the meeting to progress, later walked out of the meeting with his deputy, Cairo Ojougboh, following the ensuing argument.
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Emmanuel Alayegbami
April 7, 2017 at 9:00 am
Sheriff and Wike with Fayose must never see eyeball to eyeball if success is to be achieved in this reconciliation meeting. The three can’t just agree.
seyi jelili
April 7, 2017 at 12:29 pm
As long they can’t agree, prolonged their predicament and predestined for them to die as Obj has affirmed.
Roland Uchendu Pele
April 7, 2017 at 12:54 pm
This is the beginning of the end for PDP. They had better read the handwritting on the wall, and get a new party for themselves.
Joy Madu
April 8, 2017 at 3:40 am
Don’t say that because the pdp i know will definitely bounce back
yanju omotodun
April 7, 2017 at 1:05 pm
No worries anymore because we are okay with Apc as the only party in Nigeria. To hell with the pdp, it’s not a must they should settle their differences, they should continue disgracing themselves.