How Modu Sheriff, Gov Wike Almost Fought Each Other at PDP Crisis Meeting

Ali Modu Sheriff, a factional national chairman of the PDP stormed out of a meeting with ex President Goodluck Jonathan and other party bigwigs to resolve the party's leadership crisis yesterday.

According to reports, Jonathan, presided over the meeting, and in his opening address, begged the combatants to sheathe their swords.

Sheriff was billed to speak after him, then Ahmed Makarfi, and finally the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin.

However, Sheriff arrived late and entered as Jonathan finished talking.

Instead of calling the two combatants to address the gathering, Walid was ushered into the podium, where he also appealed to the members of the party to forget their differences.

Sheriff was alleged to have insisted that as the national chairman of the party, he was going to address the audience and insisted that Makarfi would not speak since his committee had been sacked by the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division.

His proposal was said to have been rejected by the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, who allegedly insisted that Makarfi should also be allowed to speak if Sheriff would speak.

“The argument became so ferocious to the extent that Sheriff and Wike had to stand up, pointing fingers at each other while Jonathan looked with bewilderment," he said.

“The former President tried to pacify them, but there was nothing he could do.”

Jonathan then called for a secret meeting between some party members to take care of the situation. At the inner meeting were Jonathan, Wike, Sheriff, Ekweremadu, Jibrin, Mark and Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose.

Fayose emerged first after the meeting. Sheriff then followed and stormed out of the larger meeting as well.