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Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has said Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo ignored calls from former President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail in allowing leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP use the International Conference Centre, ICC, Abuja for their stakeholders meeting on Monday.
Fani-Kayode said that Jonathan had called Osinbajo after officers of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, barricaded the entrance to the venue for a PDP stakeholders meeting, but he (Osinbajo) was indifferent, and did nothing about the situation.
The frontline opposition figure revealed this via his Twitter handle @realFFK. He tweeted: “On the day that @OfficialPDPNig was blocked from meeting at the ICC by the police, @GEJonathan called President Yemi Osinbajo to complain.
“Sadly, Osinbajo did nothing about it. The encouraging news is that @GEJonathan tried his best and showed deep concern. That is leadership.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Ahmed Makarf-led faction on Friday convened a stakeholders meeting after an Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State declared Ali Modu-Sheriff as the recognized chairman of the party. The meeting was scheduled to hold at the ICC on Monday but was however barricaded by officials of the Nigeria Police Force who maintained that there were intelligence reports that both factions (Makarfi and Sheriff) of the PDP were planning to stage a meeting at the same venue (ICC) and it had to barricade the venue (ICC) in the interest of the peace of the nation.
However, following the barricade, the meeting was later moved to the Ekiti State Government lodge.