PDP Crisis: Goodluck Jonathan’s peace committee lacks relevance – Sheriff’s loyalist

The National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a loyalist of the National Chairman of the Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, Bashir Maidugu, has said the committee set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan over the crisis rocking the party lacks relevance.

Maidugu noted that only the report of the Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson-led committee could validate the party’s national convention and ensure the restoration of peace to the party.

Speaking with Daily Trust, Maidugu said, “Any PDP believer who wants the national convention to be held should key into the recommendations of the Dickson’s committee as no other report would be considered by the party,” he said.

“The Jonathan’s committee has no relevance. We won’t recognise it. What importance does the committee have?

“We have already accepted the report of the governor Dickson-led reconciliation committee and we are working on it. Those who want the PDP crisis to be nipped in the bud should have also accepted the report of the Dickson’s committee.

“The Dickson’s committee is a creation of the second highest decision-making body of the PDP, the NEC. It had been there before the May 21, 2016 botched convention. It is a standing committee. So, we are implementing its report.”