REVEALED: Why I walked out on Jonathan and other PDP leaders - Sheriff

Factional leader of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu Sheriff
has disclosed his reason for walking out
on leaders of the party during a meeting
organized by former President Goodluck
Jonathan on Thursday, April 6.
Reports say that Jonathan had organised
the meeting to solve the deepening
leadership crisis in party but Sheriff
was enraged and abandoned the event
very into the programme held at the
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja.
According to reports, Sheriff said he
was not given due recognition as the
national chairman as pronounced by an
Appeal Court in Port Harcourt earlier
this year.
He said: “I respect Dr. Jonathan. He is a
former President but as of today, I'm the
most senior member of this party.
Therefore, if I respect him, the respect
must be reciprocated.
"You can't call me for a meeting of PDP
and say I cannot address the meeting as
national chairman of the party. 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 I will not
open the session as national chairman.
Today, I'm the most senior member of
this party.

"I think Governor Seriake Dickson made
a proposal for reconciliation. And we
have accepted. Some people want to
deviate from this programme, to bring
agenda which was not part of it. And as
national chairman of the party, what I
have told you people in my office when
Dickson brought the report is the only
thing that we have agreed at this
moment. And I will not be party for
anybody using me for another
programme. I'm not going to be part of
it."
It was recalled that the meeting
between factional national chairmen of
the PDP , summoned by Jonathan ended
in a deadlock as Ali Modu Sheriff
walked out.
Attempts to get Sheriff to return to the
event after he walked out proved
abortive.