Ahead of the Saturday August 12 Peoples Democratic Party PDP non elective national convention, former l commissioner for information, Chief Edwin Clarke, has warned that the Sen Ahmed Makarfi -led National Caretaker Committee (NCC) should not be allowed to exceed three months in office.
Clarke, who recalled that he has warned that party in 2014 not to impose candidates, noted that the party to jettison a practice where governors, government functionaries and candidates provide Logistics and convey
delegates to Abuja and other voting locations.
The former commissioner also called for the adoption of direct primaries ahead of the elective convention while declaring his support for zoning the party’s 2019 presidential ticket to the North and the national chairmanship seat to the South.
Clarke, who declared his resignation from partisan politics after the 2015 general election, however warned that he remains an elder statesman and stakeholder not only in PDP but also in the Nigeria project as he has been contributing to the peace and development the
country.
Clark in his words said “I have observed the Constitution of PDP and the 1999 Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and wish to state as
follows: Senator Ahmed Markarfi’s Caretaker Committee should be given at most another three months to allow new executives and other organs of the Party to be elected to enable the Party move on. Any time longer than three months will not be in the best interest of the Party and its members.
If Presidential election is to take place in February 2019, the minimum time required by an elected executive will not be more than 12 months to settle down. If there are interested members of the Caretaker Committee
for elective positions, such as President, Senator or Governor, such persons should not remain in office as members of the Caretaker Committee for more than three months.
Chief Clark who also endorsed the zoning of the party’s presidential candidate to the north and the party’s national chairman to the south by the Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s led post-election and reconciliation committee said “Let all Presidential aspirants from the 19 states of the North be subjected to one Primary, whereas, all National Chairmanship candidates from the 17 States of the South be subjected also to one Primary to contest together, so as to produce the best candidate, to practicalize democracy.
