Sheriff is planning to contest for president in 2019- Makarfi
Sheriff is planning to contest for president in 2019- Makarfi
- The Ahmed Makarfi faction of PDP alleges that Ali Modu Sheriff is interested in contesting the 2019 presidential election
- The faction says Sheriff as the presidential candidate of the PDP will be a real delight for the APC
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The Makarfi faction says the PDP wants to make a serious contention for
power in 2019, adding that the party does not want to field a candidate
who is the captain of the second team of the ruling party
The Ahmed Makarfi faction of PDP has alleged that Ali Modu Sheriff is planning to contest in the 2019 presidential election.
The
Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has
alleged that the party’s national chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, is holding
the party to ransom, because he wants to use the PDP platform to
contest for president in the 2019 general elections.
Makarfi
faction made the allegation in reaction to Sheriff’s statement on
Monday, March 20, that PDP’s presidential ticket will be zoned to the
North, The Punch reports.
The faction said: “Yesterday
(Monday), while addressing newsmen, as he continues to illegally occupy
our Party Secretariat with the backings of the APC Government, the
former Borno State Governor clearly stated that he’s interested in
contesting the 2019 Presidential Elections using the platform of our
Party, the PDP.
“We said it
earlier, but most non Party members as well as some members of the Party
who could not see beyond the curtains didn’t believe it, but we were
sure that Senator Sheriff was holding the Party to ransom because he
wanted to hijack the Party and use it for his selfish interest."
It
said Sheriff’s statement was evident that his fight for the soul of the
PDP was to achieve a set objective which he has been working towards
since January 2016 when he was appointed to complete the tenure of
Bamanga Tukur and Adamu Muazu who resigned having led the Party to
electoral failure in 2015.
Picking holes in Sheriff’s statement, the Makarfi faction said: "The stories in the newspapers today were clear enough.
“For
the records, he was asked if he would contest the 2019 Presidential
Election and he responded ‘….I only told you I wouldn’t run for chairman
at the convention. The rest we will leave it for God to decide.’ What a
clever way to announce his presidential ambition!"
It said Sheriff as the presidential candidate of the PDP will be a real delight for the APC.
The
faction stated that the PDP wants to make a serious contention for
power in 2019, adding that the party does not want to field a candidate
who “is the captain of the second team of the Ruling Party”.
Meanwhile, the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson has refuted reports that he asked the caretaker chairman of the PDP, Ahmed Makarfi to step down.
Governor Dickson, who is the chairman of the PDP's national reconciliation committee described the report as "misleading".
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had reported on Monday, March 20 that the Bayelsa governor asked Makarfi to step down.
A
statement signed by the special adviser to the governor on media
relations, Francis Agbo, the governor said the NAN reporter quoted him
out of context.
