PDP Crisis: Embrace dailogue - Markafi begs Sheriff

Sen Ahmed Makarfi, contentious Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, has urged the factional leader of the party, Sen Ali Modu Sheriff, to explore dialogue over Edo governorship election.


Makarfi gave the call in Abuja when he received the report of the party’s gubernatorial primaries in Edo State.

He said, “Once again, I call upon the former chairman of PDP, my colleague and friend Sheriff and those associating with him to follow the path of dialogue.


“They should not do anything further that will cause PDP harm in Edo state.’’

The former Kaduna State governor called for party unification ahead of the Edo State primaries because the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, had stated that it required 21 days’ notice to monitor any primary.

“This means validly and legally, no primary can be conducted apart from the one which we conducted and monitored by INEC.

“If the intention is not to cause the PDP to fail the election, any talk towards conducting other primaries in Edo by anybody either within or outside the state is supposed to have ceased by this time.

“I will continue to plead that what you cannot achieve through peace or dialogue, you cannot achieve it through the opposite,’’ he added.