Factional leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali
Modu Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi may have resolved to finally set
aside their grievances and give peace a chance, Vanguard reports.
Report says the warring parties have commenced negotiations on how to move forward.
The
immediate past national vice chairman of the PDP for South-South, Dr.
Cairo Ojougboh, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja.
He said the Sheriff faction has made its terms for truce known to the Makarfi group through an ‘intermediary.’
He, however, did not disclose the conditions outlined by Sheriff’s camp for peace to reign in the party.
Ojougboh,
who was appointed by Senator Sheriff as deputy chairman, insists that
Sheriff remains the authentic chairman of the PDP until a properly
constituted convention of the party says otherwise.
He noted that
Sheriff’s insistence to remain as the party’s chairman is not borne out
of desperation for power, but to put an end to the reign of impunity in
the party and returning power to the people it rightly belongs to.
According
to him, PDP governors manipulated the recently conducted party
congresses in their states, adding that Sheriff has resolved to revisit
the congresses nationwide to ensure that the party returns to the
grassroots people and not the governors.