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Former caretaker chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has disclosed that the Southwest did not have any consensus candidate that why they lost the chairmanship position of the party.
The PDP had on Saturday elected Prince Uche Secondus from the South South as the party’s new National Chairman.
Speaking to Channels TV on Monday, the former Kaduna State governor said a damaging campaign led by an unnamed individual affected the South West negatively.
“Somebody signs on behalf of other candidates and say ‘we now have a consensus candidate and please support him’ and another going round and saying ‘no, we don’t have a consensus candidate’.
“The whole issue of the south-west was its inability to put itself in order in good time. And then allowing some characters that cannot stand up in terms of credibility to occupy the political and media landscape; all kinds of abuses.
“And we cautioned them that that negative campaign by one individual was damaging them as people and members of the PDP and they needed to call that person to order. Still, they never called him to order.”