Ahmed Makarfi urges reconciliation of PDP’s factions after Supreme Court judgement






The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, said the committee was opened to reconciliation that is based on equity, equality and values.

Senator Makarfi made the pledge when addressing members and stakeholders of the party after the Supreme Court judgement on the party’s leadership crisis delivered in favour of the committee.

He described the judgment as “no victor, no vanquished’’.

The former governor of Kaduna State urged Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and his camp to come and join hands with his leadership to move PDP forward.

He also urged members of the party not to throw insults at other party men and women who lost at the court.

He commended PDP members and the judiciary for the fair judgement, saying PDP never lost faith in the judiciary.

He promised that the committee within the next few days would begin consultation and come up with a programme of meetings between with expanded PDP caucus

The Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Ayodele Fayose, said that the Supreme Court’s verdict had placed PDP on good stand to return to power in 2019.

Governor Fayose said that PDP would make maximum use of the judgement to reposition the party.

He added that the forum would not fight Sheriff and his loyalists.

He also assured the Makarfi-led leadership of the full cooperation of the governors, noting that “where we need to speak we will speak, where we need to spend money we will spend”.

Also speaking, the Deputy President of Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, described the judgment as a collective victory for the entire party faithful and the nation’s democracy.

He called on PDP leadership and elders to immediately initiate an all-inclusive peace, reconciliation, and rebuilding process in the party.

The lawmaker said that was important to reunite everybody under the “big umbrella and reinvigorate the biggest party in Africa to bounce back to the rescue of the suffering masses of Nigeria come 2019”.



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