A member of the House of Representatives has appealed to the factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff to allow unity reign in order to fight the Edo elections as a united party.
Hon. Sergius Oguns, member representing Esan south-east and Esan north-east federal constituency while speaking at his country home in Ugbohawho said: “I want to say the least I can’t say I am worried, I was a member of the convention committee, I was there at Port Harcourt and when we returned back from the convention to Abuja, the minority leader in the house of Representative called some of us to go and see Alhaji Ahmadu Sheriff to plead with him that the party is supreme, that he should put the party first, that if we have offended him as a person, we are coming on behalf of the PDP caucus in the house to ask for your forgiveness.
“Ahmadu complained of the injunctions that came and others saying that was the reason he stopped the Port Harcourt convention, he now told us that the governors have immunity, that he doesn’t have, that he can be arrested, so he needs to obey the court orders, so we now pleaded that for whatever happened he should forgive us in the interest of the party.
“We left and regrouped that same evening to see Prof. Jerry Gana in his place to also let him know that we have met with Ahmadu Sheriff so that the supremacy of the party can prevail. So the next day, the BoT of the party meet with the caretaker committee, then it was resolved that the stakeholders are ready to work with the caretaker committee.
“In that meeting it was also resolved that some of our leaders, should get in touch with Ahmadu Sheriff and his people and it was later reported back that they couldn’t reach him, so I was surprised when I saw in the papers that Ahmadu Sheriff said nobody reached him, that wasn’t correct. I personally was in his house alongside other caucus members.
“My prayers is that, His Excellency, Ahamdu Sheriff would for the sake of the party, do the needful and withdraw the cases in court and let us have one United party, so that we as an opposition party can take on the government of the day. As you and I know, things are not working right in this country, when was the last time did you hear someone speak as a united PDP? Nobody.
He continued: “So I will plead with him that if people offended him, we say sorry and for the sake of Nigeria, let’s have a strong opposition party to check the government of the day”.