The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff will remain in office till May when the party would hold its national convention to usher in new executives.
The deal was brokered at the reconciliatory meeting of major organs of the party, made up of the PDP Governors’ Forum, its Board of Trustees (BoT), National Assembly caucus, and the NWC held at the Ondo State governor’s lodge in Asokoro, Abuja.
Addressing journalists, Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, said the party resolved to end the crisis over the leadership of the party and to forge ahead as one family.
“As you can see, we are just from a meeting. You are all aware of some controversies generated by the appointment of our new national chairman.
“In view of the recent developments of our party, I want to let you know that all organs of the party – the governors’ forum, National Assembly caucus, BoT have – agreed to stand by our national chairman to ensure that our party moves forward,” he said.
Flanked by Sheriff, the governors of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti States, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekwerenadu and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, Mimiko said all important organs, including ex-Ministers, had agreed to the new deal.
“We have put behind us all the controversies in the last few days and I want to assure you that we are together as a party.
“We have also mandated the national chairman and the National Working Committee to put in motion immediately the processes of ensuring that within three months, a national convention of our party is held.
“We will brief all our members nationwide within the next two weeks of the timetable in this direction. In the next two weeks, the timetable will be out, all cumulating in our national convention within three months.
“I want to assure all of you that PDP is ready to work as one to move the country forward. We want to assure you that the party is ready to give Nigerians good governance.
“Let them know that as one big family, we are set and ready to move forward and ensure that we give good governance to the country,” he said.
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