The Peoples Democratic Party has
said its National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi will contest the
2019 Presidential election under the platform of the party.
Abdullahi Ibrahim Jalo, former
National Deputy Publicity Secretary of the party made the disclosure while
addressing newsmen in Gombe, on Thursday.
Jalo, who is also an adviser,
Hausa Media Services, to Makarfi disclosed that the former Kaduna State
Governor personally informed him of his decision to contest for the
presidential ticket of the PDP in 2019.
According to Jalo, “Let me make
it abundantly clear, Makarfi is contesting for the presidential ticket of the
party. Makarfi is like any other Nigerian and he has all the qualities to
contest. If my party wishes to make him its presidential candidate, so be it.
We shall support him.
“Makarfi told me vividly that
he’s contesting and that could not be linked to a fallacious and misleading
assumption that he’s supporting (former acting national chairman of the party,
Prince Uche) Secondus.”
The former deputy spokesperson of
the party also alleged that some powerful forces within the party have planned
to scuttle the PDP’s upcoming National convention in December.
Jalo noted that if the PDP fails
to conduct a credible national convention in December, the party may collapse.
“If PDP fails to put it right by
allowing governors to impose a candidate, not what the people want, not in the
people’s interest, certainly PDP will scatter. The political class will move to
form a new party,” he said.
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