– Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has been asked to intervene in the ongoing crisis rocking the PDP – The former president met with members of the PDP BoT at his residence in Maitama on Wednesday night – Members of the south west PDP BoT are planning to pick a consensus candidate for the position of the party’s national chairman Former President Goodluck Jonathan met with members the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday night, August 3. This came after Jonathan’s meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa. The Punch reports that Senator Walid Jibril, the chairman of the BoT, led members of the party to Jonathan’s house located at Maitama District. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter jonathan Goodluck Jonathan met with PDP BoT members Though details of the meeting were still sketchy, it was gathered that the PDP members could ask the former president to intervene in the crisis rocking the party by speaking with the two warring factions led by Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi. READ ALSO: PDP Lagos backs Bode George for PDP chairmanship According to report, this is the first meeting the leadership of the party would be having with the ex-president since he was defeated during the 2015 presidential election. Meanwhile, the 12 members of the PDP BoT in the south west have agreed to pick a consensus candidate for the position of the party’s national chairman. Members of the south west PDP BoT were said to have met at the Umaru Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, where they strategized on how the zone could clinch the position. Those who attended the meeting were a former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran; a former deputy governor of Osun state, Erelu Olusola Obada; a former national deputy chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun; and a former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope. READ ALSO: Plot to impeach Buhari: PDP chief cautions members Others were a former national deputy chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George; a former speaker, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; and an Ekiti senator, Abiodun Olujimi; a former leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Adeola; Chief Aduke Maina and Chief CK Awoyelu. After the meeting, Oyedokun, who chaired the meeting, said: “We met in order to find a common position in the quest of our region to clinch the position of the national chairman of our great party. We are appealing to our leaders to let the south west produce the national chairman of the PDP because we have never produced the chairman before. “We are planning to pick a consensus candidate if the position is zoned to the south west. The two BoT members are in support of our meeting. They apologised and sent their words.PDP has been dealing with one crisis or the other. As a result, many of its members have defected to the ruling APC. The party is currently enmeshed in series of crisis over the chairmanship position and other national executives of the party. Sheriff is insisting he remains chairman of the party despite being sacked during the botched May 21 national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The leadership of the party constituted a national caretake r committee led by Ahmed Makarfi, but Sheriff has refused to step down.