Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been warned to forget about quick resolution of the intra-party crisis rocking the opposition party, but prepare to continue the ongoing legal war in the fight for the soul of the party even up to 2019.

Should that eventually be the case, the various legal tussles in various courts across the country will adversely affect the chances of the party at the general elections.

He warned party leaders to seek genuine reconciliation rather than the self deceit they are currently engaging in, in the name of reconciliation.

Prince Buruji Kashamu, Senator, representing Ogun East Senatorial District, gave the warning Wednesday while reviewing the outcome of the meeting held by members of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) in Abuja on Monday.

Buruji in a statement issued on the infractions within the party, which he personally signed, said the decision by the BoT to hold the next national convention in Abuja without resolving the crisis within the party may even complicate the crisis rather than resolve it.

“The outcome of such a convention will not be different from the botched Port Harcourt conventions where the process was manipulated towards achieving a predetermined end,” he predicted.

The BoT at the end of its meeting on Monday had passed a vote of confidence on the National Caretaker Committee just as it also mandated the relocation of the National Convention of the party to Abuja.

The last two unsuccessful conventions were held in Port-Harcourt.

He insisted that the BoT by the pronouncements did not act to expected level of party members given their constitutional role as conscience of the party.

“To say the least, those pronouncements neither portrayed a genuine spirit of reconciliation nor were they expected from our leaders who are the conscience and the respected leading lights of the party” he said.

While describing the initiative of the BoT members as laudable, the ?lawmaker said what the party elders ought to have done was “to preside over a transparent and unbiased reconciliation process whereby they would have summoned Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi and get the two respectable leaders to talk to each other in a room and come up with their own plans for the resolution of the crisis.

“The BoT could then ask the two leaders to jointly draw up plans and programmes towards the hosting of an all-embracing National Convention.

“Anyone who does not cooperate with such a transparent and unbiased reconciliation process can then be viewed as recalcitrant and not having the interest of the party at heart.

“Truth be told; even if the convention is held in Abuja without finding an equitable and fair political solution to all the legal issues in court, the legal tussle will continue till 2019, and that will be to the irreversible detriment of our party” he noted.

Kashamu stated that ?the BoT has no business passing a vote of confidence in either of the two contending parties when a lot of contentious legal issues were yet to be resolved, noting  that ?by passing a vote of confidence on the caretaker committee means that the BoT has taken sides on the matter

“It is not for nothing that the BoT is made up of the elderly and the experienced leaders who are supposed to be the rallying point for the party whenever there are issues or challenges such as the extant issue” he said.

He appealed to the BoT and party members to sit back and reflect on how to get the party out of the blues.

“We should reflect on our roles, choices and positions knowing full well that we are making history with whatever role we play good or bad, honourable or dishonourable, in the extant leadership crisis,” he added.