Markafi Grants Sheriff Amnesty; Pledges To Work Closely With Him

The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, markafi, has disclosed today, Thursday in Abuja that the party’s leadership brawl was a “hard battle.”

While receiving a delegation of the PDP former ministers forum led by its chairman, Taminu Turaki, Senator Markafi also declared that the Sheriff faction of the party would be granted ‘amnesty’.

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Mr. Makarfi spoke when he received a delegation of the PDP former ministers forum led by its chairman, Taminu Turaki, who paid him a courtesy visit.

He, however, stated that the result of the conflict decided by the Supreme Court was a victory for not only PDP but also all other pollitical parties.

According to Makafi “It is a victory for all political parties because the issue of convention was involved and the Supreme Court upheld the power of the convention”.

He added that the party`s leadership crisis hit the roof after its convention in Port Harcourt in 2016.

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The Supreme Court had re-affirmed Mr. Makarfi’s leadership chosen from a 2016 national convention and declared invalid, Ali Sheriff’s claim as chairman of the opposition party.

Senator Markafi further included that over the years, the PDP had paid the price of democracy for other political parties, adding that committees would be created to resolve issues in the party`s South-West chapter as well as work with the Ali Sheriff faction and other stakeholders.

“We will leave the room open. Sheriff accepted the judgment going by what I read in the media.”

He urged party members who had defected to the All Progressives Congress and the newly found political parties to return to the PDP fold.

The National Publicity Secretary of PDP National Caretaker Committee, Dayo Adeyey, had previously said that the party would grant amnesty to Mr. Sheriff and his loyalists.
Ali Modu Sheriff
While advising Ali Sheriff and supporters o desist from committing any other offence, he described Mr. Sheriff as “a monumental distraction, who created a painful and agonising period for the party”.

According to him, “Our hands are extended to all those on the other side; we will grant general amnesty to everybody; we have declared no victor, no vanquished.

“We want to give them full embrace and cooperate with them,” he said.