PDP crisis: Jonathan meets Sheriff, Makarfi, stakeholders today

As part of the political solution to the leadership crisis bedeviling the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as being canvassed in some quarters, the immediate past President of the country, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has summoned a crucial of major stakeholders of the party for today (Thursday) in Abuja.

The meeting, it was learnt, is part of ongoing efforts to proffer a solution to the crisis rocking the opposition party.

The meeting is scheduled to hold at the Shehu Musa Yar ‘Adua Centre in Abuja and is expected to be attended by leaders of the party across the country.

Those expected at the meeting include: the PDP National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and members of his National Working Committee (NWC), members of the party’s National Caretaker Committee led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi and members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) led by Senator Walid Jibrin.

Also expected at the meeting are state governors elected on the platform of PDP, the party’s caucus in the National Assembly, former ministers who are still members of the party, former PDP governors who are still members of the party.

As that press time on Wednesday, the former President had sent a formal notice to the two warring groups in the leadership crisis rocking the PDP.
The Media Adviser to Jonathan, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, confirmed this in a telephone chat on Wednesday, stressing that both parties (Sheriff and Makarfi’s camps) have expressed their commitment to be present.