PDP crisis: IGP wades in, meets Sheriff and Makarfi

PDP crisis: IGP wades in, meets Sheriff and Makarfi

– Police IG, Solomon Arase met with the two warring factional leaders of the PDP

– The discussion at the meeting may have been centered on a per­ceived threat to security in Abuja by suspected supporters of the faction­al leaders

– The IGP appealed to the feuding parties to refrain from any act that may threaten public order

Police IG, Solomon Arase held a meeting with Makarfi and Sheriff Sheri

Following the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase met with the sacked national chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff and the chairman of the caretaker committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi on Wednesday, May 25. The meeting was ostensibly to find a solution to the crisis that has enveloped the party since Sheriff was ousted as chairman at the May 21 national convention in Port Harcourt, Vanguard reports. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Makarfi and Sheriff Police IG, Solomon Arase held a meeting with Makarfi and Sheriff Sheriff was sacked by the party and a caretaker committee led by Makarfi, who is a former governor of Kaduna state was constituted. The meeting was said to have behind closed door at the police headquar­ters, Louis Edet House, Abuja.

A member of the Makarfi committee confirmed the meeting saying, the IGP told the warring factions to maintain peace and carry out their protests within the ambit of the law. Details of the discussion between Arase and the party leaders is yet unknown. Recall that after the botched convention which was held by different factions in Port Harcourt and Abuja, the PDP national secretariat in Abuja was sealed by the police, preventing both workers and officers of the party from going into the premises. The police said it received intelligence that “some aggrieved factional leaders and members of the PDP have perfected plans to engage thugs from across the country to join them in threatening public peace and security in Abuja” over the current leadership crisis within the party. The police have remained in place till date. Things took a twist on Tuesday, May 24, when a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered Sheriff to continue serving as the chairman of the party. On the same day, a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt granted an interim injunction restraining Sheriff and Professor Oladipo from parading themselves as national officers of the party. However, the party’s Board of Trustees has said it will take over the leadership of the party.