By Danjuma Attah, Gombe
The care-taker committee chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has denied favouring any of the contestants vying for the national chairmanship position of the party in its forthcoming national convention slated for December 9, 2017.
Senator Makarfi, who stated this through his media aide on hausa services, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, described the allegations as fallacious, lies and mere imagination of the accusers.
According to him, some of the prominent contestants in the chairmanship race are calling for the resignation of the caretaker chairman on the grounds that Secondus, if made the chairman, will make it easy for Makarfi to secure the party’s presidential ticket for the 2019 general election.
But reacting to the allegations, Alhaji Jalo said, “If I keep quiet and pretend all is well, I will not be fair to myself and the caretaker chairman. Bode George, an aspirant; Tunde Adeniran, Gbenga Daniel, and many others are calling for the resignation of Makarfi on the assumptions that Makarfi is supporting Uche Secondus. They are linking the assumption of Makarfi’s ambition of contesting for the president in 2019 under the party’s ticket.”
Also confirming Makarfi’s presidential ambition, Jalo said, “Makarfi personally told me that he is contesting but that cannot be linked to the fallacious and misleading assumptions that Makarfi is supporting Secondus. I am refuting that allegation.”
“However”, he said, “Let me make it clear that Makarfi is an impartial leader even when he has the right to support any candidate of his choice. He cannot publicly show who he is supporting, but he is not supporting Secondus.”
Alhaji Jalo who is also a contestant for the deputy national chairman (North) of the party, also said, “I am not against Secondus as a person, I don’t want people to say that PDP has not learnt their lesson or that they are bringing thieves, people with questionable character.
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