Sheriff To Lead PDP For Just 3 Months

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that its new Chairman Ali-Modu Sheriff would only preside over the party for three-month.

This was a resolution reached during a meeting of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), the National Assembly Caucus, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and state caucuses on Tuesday.

The party leaders, after the meeting held at theOndo State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, said the decision to allow Sheriff stay for three months was a unanimous one.

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, who addressed journalists shortly after the meeting, said the decision to stand by Sheriff was taken in the best interest of the party.

He said Sheriff had been mandated to put in motion preparations for the party’s national convention to elect new members of the NWC to run the party.

Also commenting on the outcome, the Acting Chairman of the BoT, Senator Walid Jibrin, announced the concurrence of the BoT with the decision.

According to him, Sheriff was given two weeks within which to produce a timetable for the next convention to be convened in May.