Makarfi: PDP winning Anambra, Ekiti, Osun governorship elections, says ‘no special privilege for new members’

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has declared that the party would win the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.
The party will also win the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections scheduled for 2018.
Makarfi, who also said the party “is open to new members”, however, declared that there would be no special privilege for those joining the party.
“We are open to reconciling with everybody. We are open to accepting new entrants into the party, but no special privileges for anybody coming into the party. That is not an issue to be contemplated. No exclusivity. It will be inclusive without any special privilege to anybody or group of individuals.
“That is how the ruling party got it wrong. We should learn from that. What we need to do is that we will create level-playing field; and we don’t lord it over those who have slaved for the party,’’ Makarfi said on Thursday at the headquarters of the party in Abuja while receiving a delegation of PDP Rescue Group.
The group is led by Ambassador Wilberforce Juta.
He stressed the need for the party to evolve mechanism for dedicated and loyal party men and women, stressing that that is how the members could remain committed.
“If there is no such mechanism, people can question themselves; why do you have to continue exhibiting such loyalty and commitment to the party?
“People can as well be nomadic politicians and migrate to where the pasture is green for whatever reasons.
“In some African countries, we didn’t hear of this kind of mobility, but in Nigeria, we are nomadic politicians.
“We have many nomadic politicians and they should behave well. They will be welcomed but I stand by what I have said earlier,” the chairman insisted.
Juta commended Makarfi for his magnanimity for extending a hand of fellowship to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and his followers.
“We hereby urge Senator Sheriff and his supporters to positively respond to this gesture to avail themselves to the abundant opportunities that abound in the PDP.
“This is how it should be and we are thankful and proud to belong to this democratically-civilised PDP family,’’ Juta said.
He urged the chairman to appoint credible party members to be charged with the responsibility of conducting credible congresses and the forth coming non-elective and substantive elective conventions.
Also speaking on behalf of Makarfi at a press conference, National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, declared that the party would win the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.
He also said the party would repeat same during the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections in 2018.
Adeyeye expressed optimism that the PDP would reclaim South-West states in 2019 if it is united.
He said that the party lost the states due to internal crisis in the region.
On the Anambra governorship election, Adeyeye said that the peace effort of the party in the state was already yielding fruits and indication that the party would win the election “is already clear”..
He said that a substantive caretaker committee for the state would be constituted next week.