Goodluck JonathanWith the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worsening by the day, former President Goodluck Jonathan has tried to salvage a party on the brink.
Mr. Jonathan was alleged to have asked the two protagonists, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi and Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, to step down. But Mr. Sheriff in a statement said there was nothing like that. He was not considering stepping down.
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Makarfi is the Caretaker Committee chairman who is backed by governors elected on PDP platform while Sheriff is the authentic national chairman of the PDP who got a favourable judgment at the Court of Appeal recently.
Both men and factions have been fighting for the control of the PDP, a fight that has left once Nigeria’s ruling party that boasted that it would rule for many decades, in limbo.
Even with the apparent power struggle in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as President Muhammadu Buhari struggles with his health in the United Kingdom, PDP has not been able to take advantage of ruling party also in crisis and unable to deliver the change it promised.