The Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party’s (PDP) Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said
he has no ill-feelings towards former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Makarfi stated this on Friday, in
a reaction to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose’s interview in
the current edition of The Interview magazine .
Fayose claimed Obasanjo stopped
Makarfi and ex-Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, from emerging as the PDP
presidential nominee for the 2007 election. Fayose was the head of the PDP
National Committee that searched for the party’s presidential candidate in the
said election and claimed that Obasanjo felt Makarfi was too smart to be
controlled.
“As a loyal Obasanjo boy then, I went to
Obasanjo and told him that in the committee that was set up, everybody seemed
to prefer Makarfi, except one person and I who were in the minority,” the Ekiti
Governor revealed
When asked by Puunch if Obasanjo
truly stopped him from emerging as the PDP presidential candidate in the 2007
election, Makarfi replied: “Whatever happened is history. No hard feelings
towards anybody. God gives power to whom He wishes and takes at will. President
Obasanjo was my leader and remains one of my leaders.”
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Shame on fayose, big shame!!
ReplyDeleteWhy now? This is intended to create ill feeling between the two
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