Goodluck Jonathan meets with PDP BoT,

Jonathan meets with PDP BoT,
to intervene in crisis

– Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has been
asked to intervene in the ongoing crisis
rocking the PDP
– The former president met with members
of the PDP BoT at his residence in Maitama
on Wednesday night
– Members of the south west PDP BoT are
planning to pick a consensus candidate for
the position of the party’s national chairman
Former President Goodluck Jonathan met
with members the Board of Trustees of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on
Wednesday night, August 3.
This came after Jonathan’s meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari at the
presidential villa.
The Punch reports that Senator Walid Jibril,
the chairman of the BoT, led members of
the party to Jonathan’s house located at
Maitama District.
Goodluck Jonathan met with PDP BoT
members
Though details of the meeting were still
sketchy, it was gathered that the PDP
members could ask the former president to
intervene in the crisis rocking the party by
speaking with the two warring factions led
by Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi.
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According to report, this is the first meeting
the leadership of the party would be having
with the ex-president since he was defeated
during the 2015 presidential election.
Meanwhile, the 12 members of the PDP BoT
in the south west have agreed to pick a
consensus candidate for the position of the
party’s national chairman.
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Members of the south west PDP BoT were
said to have met at the Umaru Yar’Adua
Centre in Abuja, where they strategized on
how the zone could clinch the position.
Those who attended the meeting were a
former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde
Adeniran; a former deputy governor of Osun
state, Erelu Olusola Obada; a former national
deputy chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Shuaib
Oyedokun; and a former Minister of
Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope.
Others were a former national deputy
chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George; a
former speaker, House of Representatives,
Dimeji Bankole; and an Ekiti senator, Abiodun
Olujimi; a former leader of the House of
Representatives, Mulikat Adeola; Chief
Aduke Maina and Chief CK Awoyelu.
After the meeting, Oyedokun, who chaired
the meeting, said: “ We met in order to find a
common position in the quest of our region to
clinch the position of the national chairman of
our great party. We are appealing to our
leaders to let the south west produce the
national chairman of the PDP because we have
never produced the chairman before.
“We are planning to pick a consensus
candidate if the position is zoned to the south
west. The two BoT members are in support of
our meeting. They apologised and sent their
words .”

Ever since it lost the 2015 general elections,
the PDP has been dealing with one crisis or
the other. As a result, many of its members
have defected to the ruling APC.
The party is currently enmeshed in series of
crisis over the chairmanship position and
other national executives of the party.
Sheriff is insisting he remains chairman of
the party despite being sacked during the
botched May 21 national convention in Port
Harcourt, Rivers state.
The leadership of the party constituted a
national caretake r committee led by Ahmed
Makarfi, but Sheriff has refused to step
down.
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