by Azeez Adeniyi

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff has said he would not attend any reconciliation meeting organized by former President Goodluck Jonathan again.

He said this while speaking on the unsuccessful reconciliatory meeting called by the ex-President on Thursday.

Sheriff had reportedly walked out of the meeting which was held at the Yar’Adua Centre on Thursday.

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While speaking through his deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Sheriff said Jonathan did not stick with the agreement they made before he accepted to be part of the meeting.

Sheriff added that he was supposed ro preside over the meeting and not act as a spectator.

He also stated that he would not appoint anyone to be part of the 40-member committee the former President promised to set up on the reconciliation.

Rather, he said he would stick to the recommendations made by the Peace and Reconciliation Committee headed by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson.

He said, “We will never attend any peace meeting to be called by the former President on reconciliation anymore. No. Never! We won’t go there. We are no longer interested in such reconciliation.

“We will not attend any other meeting to be called by him. We would cut off every leprous hand in the party. The former President can only chair a committee on his private foundation, not that of the PDP when we have a national chairman.

“We are not happy with the way he handled the failed meeting on Thursday. He did not respect the Court of Appeal judgment which pronounced Sheriff as the national chairman of the party.

“He (Jonathan) has no legal backing to chair PDP Stakeholders’ meeting when we have a sitting chairman. The former President does not have such a right. The failed meeting had scattered all the good works achieved by the Dickson committee.

“We hail our governors, except the duo of Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states respectively, who worked against the meeting.”