The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, has called on the party’s caretaker committee chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi to embrace peace in other to move the crisis-ridden party ahead.
Speaking in Abuja through his National Deputy Chairman, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Sheriff said there was urgent need for stakeholders to consider political solution to the party’s festering crisis.
Ojougboh said, “I appeal to governors and elders of the party to join hands with the leaders in moving the party forward. We need to find political solution to this crisis because the pending court cases could drag till 2019.
“We should be able to sit together and look at the problem dispassionately. The Port Harcourt convention was illegal; so the caretaker committee is null and void.
“Sheriff is ready and willing to make peace but we must be ready to obey the rule of law and respect internal democracy. He is ready to hand over any day, but he is not prepared to be stampeded out office.”
The party chief noted that the crisis in the PDP was all about the 2019 presidential ticket, which he said had set different groups and interests against one another.
He called on the governors and the party elders to formally dissolve the caretaker committee to enable the PDP make progress.
“The PDP under Sheriff will not rely on government or governors to fund its activities because members will be made to pay their dues and a system of accountability will ensure the judicious use of the funds,” Ojougboh added.
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