Check the permission and ownership for sudo :
[root@baselinux ~]# which sudo
/usr/bin/sudo
[root@baselinux ~]# ls -ld /usr/bin/sudo
—s–x–x. 1 root root 123832 Jun 7 2017 /usr/bin/sudo
if not own by root:
chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
then
chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo