The national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff yesterday met with the former chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih at his Abuja residence over the crisis within the party. Senator Sheriff, was accompanied by his deputy, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh and former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan among other members of his National Working Committee (NWC). He told journalists after the meeting the he came to seek Anenih’s advice on the current logjam in the party. According to Sheriff, “In PDP that we are enjoying today, there are founding fathers. So as a father I came to talk to him. He is one of the fathers of the PDP; he is one of the people who formed this party. I came to seek his advice on how we can return to our position of 1999,” he said.
Chief Anenih declined to speak on what he told Sheriff saying that “I can’t tell you my advice to my son,” Anenih said. But a source privy to the meeting told our correspondent that the former BoT chief advised Sheriff to pacify aggrieved members of the party in order for him and the PDP to move forward. “You see, Sheriff can not run the party alone. So he was advised to reconcile with all aggrieved members of the party. Sheriff as we know, wants to return this party to its lost glory and that is what he is doing currently. He will reach out to all members who feel aggrieved in order to save the PDP,” he said.
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