Senator Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman,
Peoples Democratic Party National Caretaker Committee, says his committee has
no power on micro-zoning of elective positions.
He said this Tuesday night at a
meeting with eight national chairmanship aspirants at the party’s secretariat
in Abuja.
Makarfi said: “As a committee,
our powers are limited to the decisions taken at the party’s national
convention in Port Harcourt.
“The convention agreed to zone
the national chairmanship to the South while its ticket in the 2019
presidential election was zoned to the north. We cannot go beyond that and
decide which part of the north or south should produce what.”
“Some people think that I, as
chairman of the caretaker committee, should assume the power that we don’t
have.
“We have no power beyond the
convention and the party’s constitution. I want to remind all of us that the
only thing our convention did was to zone two positions. The caretaker
committee cannot go beyond that.
“To assume that the chairman of
the caretaker committee can come and exercise power that he doesn’t have, and
start dishing out orders, that will be undemocratic. That will have no basis or
foundation in our constitution.”
He said that the meeting was
aimed at giving every aspirant the opportunity to state his vision and plans
for the party if elected its national chairman.
He said: “We decided that we
should meet, discuss and hear from you, as we prepare for the convention.”
In attendance were: Senator
Rasheed Ladoja, former Oyo State Governor; Prof. Tunde Adeniran, former
Education Minister; Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former Ogun State governor; and Chief
Raymond Dokpesi, founder, Daar Communications.
Others were Chief Olabode George,
former PDP National Deputy Chairman; Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, former sports and
special duties minister; Jimi Agbaje, PDP governorship candidate in 2015; and
Prince Uche Secondus, former PDP acting National Chairman.
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