National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu-Sheriff has stormed out of a meeting convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan to resolve the leadership crisis rocking the party.
Sheriff who arrived late at the opening session of the peace meeting in Abuja on Thursday, was irked that he was not allowed to declare the event open.
The session was declared open by Jonathan, even as Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) Walid Jibrin gave a goodwill message.
After the programme went into a closed door session, the National Chairman stormed out after about one hour into the closed door session, insisting that he remains the most senior party official who should have declared the event open and not the former President.
“We are here for PDP stakeholders meeting and the PDP has only one national chairman, which is Ali Modu-Sheriff. There is no PDP meeting that will take place under whatever arrangement that will not open the session as national chairman. Today, I’m the most senior member of this party,” an angry Sheriff told newsmen on Thursday.
Other leaders of the party including Chairman, PDP National Caretaker Committee Ahmed Makarfi, former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim, governors of Ekiti, Rivers, attended the event.
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