Ali Modu Sheriff: Dissolve Makarfi C’ttee for peace in PDP

The disputed National Chairman of the Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday gave condi­tions to end the crisis rocking the party, saying the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee must be dissolved as it is not known to the party’s constitution.
This is as Senator Buruji Kashamu, his former sup­porter appealed to him to soft-pedal in the in-terest of the party and its teeming members.
Sheriff, who spoke in Abu­ja when a delegation of Abia chapter of PDP from the 17 local gov-ernments paid him a solidarity visit, added that the other conditions is for him to nominate the con­vention chairman and also a fresh national convention to hold in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with a con­vention committee formed by 10 members apiece from his group and the Makarfi committee.
Explaining what transpired in the bid to find­ing a lasting solution to the crisis, Sheriff said that he was approached for reconcilia­tion by the PDP Governors from the North-East, Darius Isiaku of Taraba and Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State which he accept-ed. Flanked by Senator Hope Uzodimma, former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, Cairo Ojuogboh and a new entrant into the group, Barr Jimoh Ibrahim, during the event, Sheriff said that any gathering in the name of PDP convention in Port Harcourt will be illegal, maintain-ing that few individuals will not be allowed to pocket it.
He said: “I told them that the convention should hold in Abuja away from Port Har­court. Peo-ple are interested in our party and how the im­passe will be settled. “Yes, we have met and is-sues were dis­cussed but all the issues I put forward for them was for the Makarfi Caretaker Commit­tee to resign. “Since it is an aberration as far as our party constitution is concerned.