PDP Crisis - Dickson Meets Sheriff, Makarfi Groups
No Vacancy At PDP National Secretariat - Makarfi
Meanwhile, the BoT has warned the leaders against selfish ambition which it lamented is destroying the party.
The Chairman of the BoT, Senator Walid Jubril, stated this while receiving the report of the Dickson-led reconciliation committee.
Jibril dismissed plans to form a new party, adding: "Any attempt by any member to leave PDP for an unborn party will not be a good decision."
He noted that while the judiciary is doing its best to resolve the problem legally, the political solution should also be pursued.
The BoT chair said the board would meet with other organs of the party to see how a convention could be held before or latest by June.
Dickson had earlier cautioned the two factions led by Sheriff and Makarfi to drop their ego and ambition for the unity of the party
Thursday's meeting, which took place at the Bayelsa State Government Lodge in Maitama, Abuja, saw the representatives of the feuding PDP factions exchanging handshakes and cracking jokes.
Also at the meeting was Sheriff's deputy, Cairo Ojougboh. They later posed for a group photograph with Dickson, thus signalling their acceptance to forge ahead with the peace talks.
The meeting with the BoT was held at the residence of the Chairman, Jibril, with some of the key leaders in attendance including Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Senator Stella Omu, and Abbah Gana.
However, the Supreme Court will on May 4, hear an objection filed against the hearing of an appeal brought before the court by the Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the PDP.
Both the PDP and its National Chairman, Sheriff, had filed two separate motions at the Supreme Court challenging the competence of Makarfi's appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal which restored the Sheriff-led leadership of the party.
The two motions dated March 16 and 21, 2017 are asking the Supreme Court to strike out Makarfi's appeal, on the grounds that he (Makarfi) does not have the authority to file the appeal on behalf of the PDP.
While the motion of the PDP was filed and argued by Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), that of Sheriff was filed and argued by Akin Olujimi (SAN).
The two applicants in their separate motions are contending that by virtue of the Court of Appeal judgment delivered on February 27, 2017 in Port Harcourt, the issue of authentic leadership for the PDP has been settled.
The applicants are also contending that since the Makarfi-led leadership had lost at the appellate court, they have no legal standing to file any appeal on behalf of the PDP as an appellant in the suit.
They also insisted that the appeal filed by Makarfi had become incompetent having been filed without the authorisation of the PDP or its leadership.
Meanwhile, the Makarfi faction, through its counsel, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN), has filed a counter affidavit to the motions of PDP and Sheriff, praying the court to discountenance the two motions and allow the main appeal to be heard meritoriously.
Agabi is asking the court not to give audience to the Sheriff faction because it has no valid notice of appeal before the court and that being a party in the Port Harcourt case, they have right to bring the appeal before the court.
However, Justice Tanko Mohammed who presided over the five-man panel of the court has given the Sheriff faction 21 days within which to react to the counter affidavit of the Makarfi group.
Justice Mohammed subsequently fixed May 4 to hear the two motions.
The Makarfi-led faction had filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal, which affirmed the Sheriff faction as the authentic leadership of the PDP.
©blazeworld'17
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