The BoT reconciliation committee led by Prof. Jerry Gana had on Tuesday night met with Sheriff to find a lasting solution to the crisis in PDP.
Sheriff, who spoke at the meeting, told the BoT reconciliation committee that some of them are part of the problems that aggravated the leadership crisis, added that he was begged to come and become the national chairman of the party and that "People want to use one impunity to correct another, it will never work."
Recalled that the committee was set up to seek reconciliation majorly with sheriff ahead of the August 17 national convention scheduled for Port Harcourt Rivers State.
Before closed door session of the meeting, Sheriff said,
"I want to put it in record that I never asked or wanted to be National Chairman of the PDP. People came to beg me to put the party back together after the lose of the election in 2015.
"The governor of Bayelsa state came and I objected initially but pressure. A lot of misinformation is going around. I took the responsibility to put the party together and I did my best within the period.
"I respect a lot of my leaders. Most of the problems that are happening today if our leaders had taken their responsibilities serious there won't be problem but many of our leaders fail to take responsibility. I will listen to you as you listened to me then I will come up with what I think had gone wrong. We all want our party to be great again but we must do away with our impunity."
Speaking earlier, Prof Gana said they were there because they meant well.
He added "We are here today not as a panel, not as a court or as an appeal committee but as a family. We pray God to guide us so that the party can be one again. We have come to listen. We want to assure you that we are here listen. Fortunately we are here as politicians as solution providers. Any one who is a man of God can be solution providers. We have a burden of historic responsibility. As founding members of the party only three of us are still alive and we feel a sense of responsibility that what our founding fathers started will not be laid to waste. We feel there should be a feeling of understanding. We are here because we mean well."
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