PDP Peace Meeting Ends In Brouhaha
The disagreement among the key actors in the party crisis also forced the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to walk out of the meeting.
Jonathan, who presided over the meeting, had earlier in his opening address, begged the combatants to sheathe their swords.
In the programme of events, those listed to speak after Jonathan were Sheriff, Makarfi and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin.
Sources at the meeting said at the closed-door session, Sheriff was alleged to have insisted that as the national chairman of the party, he was going to address the audience.
It was gathered that he insisted that Makarfi would not speak since his committee had been sacked by the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division.
Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State, later spoke with journalists outside the hall of the meeting.
He said he was standing with the report of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the party, which is headed by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson.
The committee had, in its report, outlined ways to end the crisis and that a national convention should hold latest by June 30 in Abuja.
He said, “The party, as of today, has one national chairman, which is Ali Modu Sheriff. There is no PDP meeting that will take place under any arrangement that I will not make an opening remark as a national chairman.
from Punch