2019 ELECTIONS: MAKARFI REVEALS GAME-PLAN OF OBASANJO’S COALITION
2019
ELECTIONS: MAKARFI REVEALS GAME-PLAN OF OBASANJO’S COALITION
Senator Ahmed Makarfi, former chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, has given an
insight into the movement being promoted by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Describing the
movement as ‘coalition of Obasanjo’, he noted the group is not a political
party.
Makarfi explained that the agenda of the movement is to gather a
good number of the voting population and then ask them to vote for a particular
candidate in 2019.
”We don’t feel threatened by the Coalition of
Obasanjo. I can tell you that most of them are friends and associates”, he told New Telegraph.
”They said they are not a political
party, time will tell. If they turn out to be a political party, we will see
how it plays out.
”Obasanjo himself said anytime they turn
to a political party, he will cease to be a member.
”My take on it is like in the United
States, where you have independent candidacy, you have the Democrats and the
Republican.
“Then you have an
independent candidate who looks at a candidate and decides where to swing at
the last minute.
”That is what I feel it is, time will
tell what their aims are,” Makarfi added.