The national caretaker chairman of the People’s Democratic Party PDP Senator Ahmed Makarfi has disclosed that the defection of former vice president Atiku Abubakar into PDP does not stop him from joining in the race for the 2019 presidential ticket.
Makarfi recently in an interview was quoted saying “I have heard the rumor, it has been there since 2007…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.”
The national caretaker committee chairman during the interview condemned the Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose who has indicated his interest for the party’s ticket despite PDP zoning the presidential slot to the northern part of the country.
Makarfi, also hinted that PDP was expecting a harvest of defections, after Atiku’s move from the ruling All Progressives Congress.
According to Makarfi, for some strategic reasons, 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.
It was gathered that Makarfi was once schemed out of contesting for the office of number one citizen of this country during the 2007 presidential race by the former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
