The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has made it clear that he will challenge former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who just returned to the party and is likely to contest for the party’s ticket for 2019 election.
In an interview in the current edition of The Interview magazine, Makarfi
In response to a question about his own interest, Makarfi said: “I have thought of it. By the time I leave as caretaker committee chairman on the 9th or 10th, there’ll still be ten months to the party primaries. By any law or the party’s guidelines, I’m not excluded.”
Makarfi said that the PDP is expecting a harvest of defections from the All Progressives Congress (APC), after Atiku’s move from the party to PDP.
“For some strategic reasons, I don’t expect a lot of people to move to the PDP now. People are in APC for different reasons. Wait for the time when everybody will be on his own, you will see the influx of people into the PDP.”
Makarfi, who came close to being the PDP’s presidential nominee in 2006, revealed for the first time how former President Olusegun Obasanjo schemed him out, even though an internal party assessment had returned him as the most favorable candidate.[myad]
