PDP crisis: Sheriff reveals stunning truth about Makarfi

– PDP crisis takes new dimension today as Makarfi-led faction invaded the party’s secretariat by his supporters

– Sheriff while reacting to the news said Makarfi plans to become party’s presidential candidate in 2019

– He accused Makarfi of trying to destroy the opposition party for his own interests

The national chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu Sheriff has said that Senator Ahmed Makarfi is scheming to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2019.

Sahara Reporters says that ex-governor promised to remain on the side of the law to recover his mandate from the caretaker committee.

He stated that the sack of the secretariat of the party in Abuja on June 15 by vandals is a sad reminder of the days of lawlessness, impunity and brigandage for which he said sponsors of the caretaker committee have been known over the years.

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PDP chairman said this in a statement unveiled by his media aide, Mallam Inuwa Bwala.

The statement reads in part: “Ridiculous as it may sound, given the fact that right thinking Nigerians know that Makarfi and the cabal that has been sponsoring him are merely crying wolf where there was none, and having come face to face with the truth, law and reality, it is imperative to state some facts for the records.

“Makarfi and his sponsors want to create the wrong impression that Sheriff is not reliable, whereas it is an open secret that Sheriff has given credible and honest leadership to his State, to Nigeria and to the PDP. 

“We wish to challenge Ahmed Makarfi to name the date, venue and names of those in attendance at the so-called meeting Sheriff allegedly had with some governors from the APC.

“Again, how could Sheriff have been a stooge when he remains the only PDP stalwart that speaks out against the APC since the party lost the 2015 elections?
“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that Ali Modu Sheriff left the APC at its formative stage, and has never had anything to do with the party or any of its stalwarts since his departure.

“One wonders how Ahmed Makarfi and his cohorts could tell lies just to divert attention from the real issues at stake.

“There is a cabal in the PDP that is desperately trying to hijack the structure of the party and continue the perpetuation of acts of lawlessness and impunity, which Ali Sheriff resisted.

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“While we consider it most uncharitable that Makarfi will attempt to smear our revered National Chairman by leveling frivolous allegations in the hope that he can divert attention from the real agenda of the group leading him by the nose, we make bold to state that his own ambition to become the presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 is an open secret.”

Sheriff was reacting to the invasion of the PDP secretariat by supporters of the Makarfi-led faction of the party earlier in Abuja.

He was substituted as PDP chairman at the May 21 botched national convention of the party in Port Harcourt, where the caretaker committee was picked to take charge of the party’s affairs.

However, Sheriff on June stormed the party headquarters and seized the secretariat from the caretaker committee.

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