PDP in fresh crisis, Bode George, others want Makarfi to resign

By Emeka Nze

Abuja

Against the accusation that National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has favoured a chairmanship candidate preparatory to the forthcoming convention, one of the South-west aspirants, Chief Bode George, has called for his resignation.
On Monday, another chairmanship aspirant, Prof Tunde Adeniran, had expressed lack of confidence in the leadership of Makarfi, accusing him of thwarting the chances of the zone to produce the next chairman.
Speaking for George yesterday, the Director-General, Bode George Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliu, said: “For the sake of equitable balance and moral appropriateness, we strongly advise Senator Makarfi to resign his position forthwith because he has been severely compromised.
“It is increasingly disturbing and rather untidy the role Senator Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman of the PDP Caretaker Committee is presently playing in the processes towards the party national convention on December 9, this year.
“Apparently spurred by personal ambition of contesting for the Presidential office in 2019, Makarfi is brazenly allying with a particular aspirant in the South-South to deliberately distort the process, muddle equity and invariably destroy the democratic process for transient personal gains.”
Continuing, he said: “Makarfi’s Action, to put it mildly, is sickening, untoward, blatantly tendentious , totally stripped of the typical moral high ground that often defines a well meaning, God- fearing arbitrating leadership.
“Everywhere you look, Makarfi is planting the agents of his favorite South-south candidate to stage manage warped and skewed congresses in an undisguised mockery of all the normative patterns of our founding fathers whose enduring forte about equity, justice and fairness is now being flung into the gutter.
“He can no longer play the role of a neutral arbiter who stands far above the fray. He is already tarred and soiled in the muddy waters of partisan prejudice.
“Makarfi should now do the most honourable thing by walking away and face his ambition squarely. He cannot use a privilege non-elective position to wangle undue advantages to his own side. It is patently unacceptable.
“We need to redeem our party by being faithful to the great ideals of our founding fathers. We really believe that elders of the party across the nation should summon an emergency summit to deliberate on the right way to re-strategise our party and rectify the wrongs on the ground.”

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