PDP crisis: Sheriff must apologise to Goodluck Jonathan

PDP crisis: Sheriff must apologise to Goodluck Jonathan – Youths demand

– The Youth wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that faction leader Senator Ali Modu Sheriff must tender an apology to Ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

– The call comes on the heels of an incident in which Sheriff walked out on Jonathan at a peace meeting

Following the altercation between Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Goodluck Jonathan, youths of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have demanded that the faction leader apologise to the former president.

The youths made the demand on Wednesday, April 12.

ZENITHBLOG.com had earlier reported that Senator Sheriff walked out on Jonathan and other PDP leaders at the party’s stakeholders meeting in Abuja last week.

The youths, under the aegis of the Almagamated PDP Youth Leaders Nationwide, said at a press briefing in Abuja that it was an embarrassment for Sheriff to have walked out on Jonathan, who they described as the leader of the party.

Chairman of the group, Segun Aderemi, said Sheriff disrespected the party when he walked out on Jonathan and other party leaders during the meeting.

PDP crisis: Sheriff must apologise to Goodluck Jonathan - Youths demand

Youths of the PDP says Senator Ali Modu Sheriff must apologise to Goodluck Jonathan, for walking out on the ex-president and other leaders of the party

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added that the youths in the party would not want anyone to disrespect Sheriff, as leader of the party, as such he too should not disrespect other PDP leaders.

He, however, said that as a result of his action, the youths have given Sheriff seven days counting from today to tender an unreserved apology to Jonathan and other party leaders, for embarrassing them through his conduct last Thursday.

“We witnessed what happened that day when he walked out on the former President. Would Sheriff be happy if any member of the party embarrass him the way he embarrassed Jonathan that day?

“He has to tender an unreserved apology to the former President, the BoT and other leaders of the party.

“We insist he should tender an unreserved apology. We strongly believe that he is going to do the needful,” Aderemi stated.

The Guardian reports that Aderemi said the youth of the party don’t have anything against Sheriff or the chairman of the National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, adding that their interest is the immediate resolution of the PDP crisis.