PDP Crisis: Makarfi’s committee collects N50m monthly from governors – Sheriff

The Sen Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday accused the Ahmed Makarfi’s National Caretaker Committee of collecting N50m monthly subvention from governors on the platform of the party.

National Deputy Chairman of the party, Cairo Ojougboh, while speaking at a press conference in Abuja, claimed that the subvention collected by the committee was why members have chosen to stick with the committee despite been sacked by the Port Harcourt Appeal Court.

Stating that the National Caretaker Committee was grumbling, Ojougboh also alleged that Makarfi was plotting to pick the presidential ticket of the party in 2019.

According to Ojougboh, “The reason why the caretaker committee members are protesting is that they have seen that the table is now crumbling fast under their feet.

“All the organs of the party are cueing into the reconciliation and when the reconciliation pulls through, they are out and Senator Makarfi can only come as member of the Board of Trustees and so the N50m monthly subvention from governors will stop.

“They get subvention from the governors every month and when reconciliation happens, that subvention will stop.

“Secondly, Makarfi wants a situation where he will tailor-make and tailor-made the convention to suit his interest because he has come out to say that he will be contesting the presidency of the country. “