The Ali Modu Sheriff’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the National Caretaker Committee of the party under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Makarfi of collecting N50 million monthly subvention from governors of the party.
The court recognized Sheriff’s PDP alleged that the payment of monthly subvention by the governors to Makarfi’s faction of the party could be the reason why the members of the committee which have been outlawed by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were unwilling to let go.
The Deputy Chairman of the party, Senator Cairo Ojougboh, who made this allegation when he spoke to news men at the party’s national secretariat, said that the caretaker committee is already crumbling.
“The reason why the caretaker committee members are protesting is that they have seen that the table is now crumbling fast under their feet.
“All the organs of the party are cueing into the reconciliation and when the reconciliation pulls through, they are out and Senator Makarfi can only come as member of the Board of Trustees and so the N50m monthly subvention from governors will stop.
“They get subvention from the governors every month and when reconciliation happens, that subvention will stop.
“Secondly, Makarfi wants a situation where he will tailor-make and tailor-made the convention to suit his interest because he has come out to say that he will be contesting the presidency of the country.” [myad]
