Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) leaders are still quarelling over the choice of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff
as Acting National Chairman.
Some former ministers and
members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) have raised a committee to meet with
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, who is to be told —reject Sheriff or face a
mass exodus. The deadline is March.
Sheriff barged into a BoT
session yesterday but members only promised to get back to him on his plea for
acceptance.
The BoT resolved not to
endorse Sheriff. It may advertise the job, a source hinted.
But the
anti-Sheriff forces in the party and some members of the National Working
Committee(NWC) are pushing for the tenure of the acting chairman to end in
March.
Sheriff succeeded Adamu
Mu’azu whose tenure ought to end in March.
The team will tell Dr.
Jonathan of the “grave implications”of picking Sheriff to lead the PDP.
The former ministers and
BoT members pledged not to attend any meeting with Sheriff or his
representatives.
A source said: “We have
asked a team to meet Jonathan and draw his attention to the grave implications
of having Sheriff as PDP national chairman.
“We believe the
ex-President was ill-informed.We want Jonathan to withdraw his backing so that
Sheriff can step aside in March.
“ We have weighed all
options and the only midstream approach now is to prevail on Sheriff to
complete Muazu’s tenure and quit in March.
“So Jonathan has to
choose between the larger interest of the party and Sheriff.”
-The Nation
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