7 PDP crisis: Sheriff consults Anenih

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff yesterday consulted former chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih at his Abuja residence over the crisis within the party.

Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State 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).

Speaking with newsmen at the end of the meeting which lasted for about an hour, Sheriff said he consulted the elder statesman to seek his advice on the current logjam in the party. “PDP that we are enjoying today, there are founding fathers. So as a father I came to talk to him. I came to seek his advice on how we can return to our position of 1999,” he said.

Chief Anenih declined to discuss his advice to Sheriff. “I can’t tell you my advice to my son,” he 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.

Similarly, Sheriff ’s deputy, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, said: “we are repositioning the party and for that reason, we are consulting widely.”

On why Sheriff supporters broke into the secretariat Thursday, Ojougboh said: “It is the police that sealed the office, it was the police that opened the office based on the court order. The chairman didn’t break into the secretariat.”