The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, said on Wednesday the Supreme Court judgment on the party’s leadership tussle brought stability to the polity.
Makarfi stated this when he received a delegation of the PDP Women Forum at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
Makarfi, who said the judgment had also calmed down tensions, promised that PDP would not let Nigerians down.
“It was a landmark judgment that touches on every political party you can think of. It was a landmark judgment that has stabilised the polity.
“We know there is hunger, we know there are difficulties and all kinds of problems in the country. But as soon as this judgment came, it seemed to have brought down tempers.
“Why tempers have gone down is that people have seen the alternative they have been waiting for. We will work together as always to make sure we don’t let the people down,” Makarfi said.
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He re-emphasised that the party leadership would pursued reconciliation with PDP members who had either left the party or developed cold feet, even before 2015.
He added that apart from reconciliation, PDP needed to expand and attract new members to go beyond what it used to be, saying the process required accommodation.
He added: “If you can’t reconcile, you can’t expand if your policy will be exclusive in nature.
“As you reconcile and expand, you accommodate different political interest that is rational, that is reasonable, that is fair. Otherwise, people have no reason to reconcile.
“That should be the guiding principle; but in so doing, we are also not going to sacrifice those who have made investments for us to get to where we are today.”
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