By Emeka Nze Abuja
National chairman of the National Caretaker Committee (NCC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi , has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to hold regular meetings for fear of implosion. Makarfi stated this yesterday while hosting a delegation of former speakers of the House of Assembly in Abuja.
Th e chairman who boasted that despite its leadership crisis, PDP still held regular meetings of the party while he berated APC of being afraid of holding meetings due to suspected mass defections. According to him, the APC had wanted to copy from the PDP by holding a meeting with the Vice President, only for some of its governors to come out and threatened to dump the party. He added that immediately after the Supreme Court judgement, PDP held three majors meetings without fears of implosion.
“Even with our crisis we were never afraid to hold meetings. Within two days we held three meetings; expanded caucus meeting, caucus meetings, Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. “It was like a market place. People came from everywhere but we didn’t fears. Nobody had to fear. Th e party in government wanted to copy us. Th ey held a meeting with the Vice President. Th ey came out and some governors threatened to leave the party. “Th is was the fi rst meeting they were having in two years and some governors threatened to leave,” he said. He, however, assured that PDP would give credible and constructive opposition to the APC devoid of hate speech. “We will give credible opposition, but we won’t make hate speeches. We will talk in a language that will show that we are mature politicians.” He noted that the Supreme Court judgment over the recent leadership crisis in the party stabilised the polity.
