By Dansu Peter
Just as the Supreme court recently helped resolve the leadership crisis between Ahmed Makarfi, the caretaker committee chairman, and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, a factional Chairman of the party that almost consumed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a fresh crisis of confidence has broken out in PDP between some governors and the Former Ministers Forum, new report according to The Nation Newspaper has detailed.
it was learned that the affected governors, who have the ambition to be Vice President, have been uncomfortable with the growing influence of the Forum.
They alleged that the Forum is not only illegal but extraneous to the PDP Constitution.
Investigation showed that the affected governors were behind an amorphous group, Committee for Justice and Fairness (CJF) allegedly formed to checkmate the Ministers Forum The new group in a statement last night took a swipe at the Former Ministers Forum.
It said: “We want to bring to your attention the very disruptive and reckless activities of the so-called Former Ministers Forum.
“This group, which has no constitutional or any formalistic bearing to the structural integrity of our great party, has somehow assumed the role of a primary arbiter in the affairs of our great party as the tin-horn characters go about pontificating about issues far beyond their assumed authority and position.
“It is rather disgraceful, annoying, obstructionist and evil straying into a deliberate sabotaging of the present peace of our party when the so-called former ministers are bent on destroying the already long-established consensus reached at Port Harcourt that the next National Chairman of our party should come from the South-West.
“This very historic consensus is not only fair and just. It is very appropriate and complements the well-known fairness doctrine.
“For out of all the six zones of our national union, the Southwest is the only zone which has been deprived of this prime honour.
“To now deprive our zone of what is appropriately our just desert is condemnable, invidious, cruel and unfair. It is virtually unacceptable.
“We urge the leadership of the Caretaker Committee and all allied leadership of our party to call these people to order. They should stop, henceforth, from sowing the seeds of discord and confusion in our party.
“We are just emerging from a long nightmare inflicted on our party by agent provocateurs. We must never tread the same abominable road again.”
However,the Forum asked the affected governors to shut up because the ex-ministers sustained the party in its darkest and challenging moment.
A reliable source in the forum said: “We know that some of these governors who want Vice Presidential ticket in 2019 are trying to influence Makarfi’s Caretaker Committee to ignore or disband the Forum.
” We are aware that one of the governors from the Southsouth has already initiated talks with a serving APC governor to serve as a running mate during the 2019 poll.
“The party can ignore our Forum at its own peril. Like gamblers, some of these governors were shuttling between Makarfi and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff when our party was in crisis. But this Forum was consistent and it did its best to give strong support to Makarfi. Now, the ambitious governors do not see anything good in the Forum. We are ready for a long drawn battle with them.”
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