Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigeria needs a strong party in power and a strong opposition party, if the country’s democracy must become stronger.
There is no end in sight yet for the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the two warring factions of the party continue to disagree over plans to conduct fresh national convention.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday re-affirmed the sack of Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Nigerian Police this morning sealed off the venue of the National Convention of the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Port-Harcourt to prevent delegates from entering.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from going ahead with it planned National Convention.
Factional National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu-Sheriff, says he is willing to resign as the PDP chairman if the other faction would agree to hold an open and transparent convention in Abuja.
