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Sheriff asks Makarfi to resign as conditions for truce

The embattled national chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday gave conditions for truce, including a call for Senator Ahmed Makarfi and members of the national caretaker committee to resign immediately. ‎Sheriff who described the committee as illegal, said he was elected by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), adding that the crisis within the party would continue if the caretaker committee was not dissolved. ‎Addressing a delegation of PDP stalwarts from Abia State, who paid him a visit in Abuja, Sheriff listed other conditions for peace in the PDP to include holding fresh national convention in Abuja and not in Port Harcourt. The Makarfi led committee had slated August 17 for the Port Harcourt convention. He also said stakeholders of the party should tell Makarfi to nominate 10 people that would work closely with 10 others that would be nominated by him, to form the convention committee. The former Borno State governor said he‎ was approached for re...