The embattled factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has vowed that he will not relinquish his claim to the leadership of the party unless Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, resigns.
Sheriff who spoke in Abuja on Monday when he hosted a delegation of the party from Abia State, said it was true that a meeting was held in Abuja last week Tuesday on how to bring all warring factions in the party together but said the meeting could not agree with the most important aspect of his conditions.
Apart from the resignation of Makarfi, Sheriff said that he (sheriff) must be allowed to nominate the chairman and 10 others into the new convention committee.
He said he was ready to accept another 10 members for the committee from the Makarfi group, stating that all these were the demands he made at a meeting held with leaders of the party, including Markafi last Tuesday at the Taraba State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja.
Sheriff also said that he told those at the meeting that the proposed national convention should not hold in Port Harcourt, but in Abuja, stressing that these were the conditions he said should be met before he would speak to members of his National Working Committee.
These members, he added, would be persuaded to resign and present themselves again for election and if they so wish, give-up their offices in the interest of the party.
According to sheriff, “People are very interested in our party and how the impasse will be settled, before the Port Harcourt convention was aborted by a court order.
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