Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will on Thursday, meet to discuss the way forward through the crisis that is plaguing the party as well as the programmes put in place by the caretaker committee, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, for the party’s convention and forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.
Prior to the planning of the meeting, Makarfi had extended an olive branch to the Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the party, asking them to return to the mainstream of the party.
Sheriff however on Tuesday, insisted no peace talk would be effective unless he is recognized as the National Chairman of the party.
On the proposed meeting, Dayo Adeyeye, spokesperson for the caretaker committee revealed that governors elected on the platform of the party as well as members of the Board of Trustees, BOT, and the National Assembly members would be in attendance to discuss the programme drawn up by the committee for the convention of the party which may hold in August. Preparations for the upcoming Edo and Ondo guber polls will also be discussed.
According to him, members of the caretaker committee are ready to hold the party’s convention within the specified time frame given to it at the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt.
Meanwhile, Makarfi, speaking on Wednesday when he received state chairmen of the party from the North West geo-political zone, said the problems of the party could not be solved through court injunctions, no matter the legality and therefore urged Sheriff to accept the olive branch extended to him.
“So far, all legal intervention has been in favour of the decisions of the Port Harcourt national convention. That is not to say that the job is finished.
‘’In the past, I have said severally that the path of peace and reconciliation is the best path. Litigation can resolve issues on legal grounds but not between brothers and sisters.
“We will never foreclose that window, even if the legal issue terminates at this stage. If the legal issue continues, we will not foreclose the window of reconciliation. I assure you that we will work very hard to do the needful.
“I don’t want to talk too much on what we want to do because we are yet to be in full comfort zone. God willing, we will deliver to the satisfaction of PDP members,” he said.
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