Unbelievable! Sheriff is my friend, I’ll continue to plead with him – Makarfi

– Senator Ahmed Makarfi has stated that he is ready for the dialogue with Senator Sehriff

– The PDP politician said that ex-governor is his friend and the party should united before the forthcoming Edo governorship election

Senator Ahmed Makarfi, factional national chairman of PDP and former Kaduna state governor

The chairman of the caretaker committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ahmed Makarfi has said that Ali Modu Sheriff, factional chairman of the party, is his friend.

He said he will continue to plead with Sheriff for the dialogue as it is important for the party to unite ahead of the Edo governorship poll, The Cable reports.

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Makarfi was speaking in Abuja on June 27, Monday, when he received the report of the PDP primary poll in Edo.

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

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

“They should not to do anything further that will cost PDP harm in Edo state.”

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

“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.”

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Mr. Makarfi further praised members of the primary committee adding that the committee had set a standard that needed to be imitated at all levels of the PDP’s primary to make the poll free and fair.

The war of words continued between two politicians for days.

Senator Sheriff last week alleged that the Senator Makarfi-led national caretaker committee of the party recruited Fulani herdsmen to kill members of the PDP’s leadership.

On his own part, Makarfi accused former Borno governor of creating and funding the deadly Boko Haram sect.

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