Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, and members of the party’s Board of
Trustees, BoT, have appealed to embattled
factional National Chairman of the party, Sen.
Ali Modu Sheriff to allow the party’s August 17
National Convention to hold.
The governors who met with the former Borno
State governor at Gombe Governor’s Lodge in
Abuja on Friday, appealed to him to withdraw all
his court cases against the party.
The governors who met with Sheriff include,
Ekiti State Governors, Ayodele Fayose, Nyesom
Wike (Rivers) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe).
Meanwhile, Sheriff gave the governors condition
for which he will yield to their demand.
According to Sheriff, Wike must not head the
party’s National Convention Planning Committee,
the convention must be brought to Abuja and
that he must be allowed to head the party that
would conduct the convention, Punch reports.
The embattled party Chairman also insisted that
the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National
Caretaker Committee should be disbanded
immediately and people be appointed into the
National Working Committee, NWC, of the party.
However, a source from the meeting while
commenting said, “Sheriff is not ready for peace
with the conditions he set. We may have to
move on and leave him with his conditions
because we have to continue with our
preparations for the convention. We can’t be
dragged out again.”