The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) led by a former governor
of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has
abandoned its temporary office located at No.13
Thaba-Tseka Street, Wuse 2, Abuja.
Reliable sources within the party told Daily Trust
yesterday that the committee members were
perturbed, following the move to serve them
Notice of Contempt of court for meeting in Port
Harcourt, on August 17, 2016, for a purported
convention which extended their tenure by one
year.

Before the event, Justice Okon Abang of the
Federal High Court, Abuja, had warned that the
organizers of the convention might be arrested for
contempt should they go ahead and converge in
Port Harcourt.
He also ordered the endorsement of Form 48 to be
served with the Order against the caretaker
committee members and the chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), Professor Mahmud Yakubu.
It was learnt that soon after the convention,
attempts made to serve the committee the Form 48
proved abortive, as all the members have
abandoned their offices.

Our correspondent, who visited the office,
yesterday, during working hours, reports that only
three security personnel were seen sitting by the
gate, which was not locked, while party officials
were conspicuously absent, with the official
parking space empty.
One of the security personnel, who spoke in
confidence, said: “Since the time they returned
from the convention, the ogas have stopped
coming here.”

Speaking on the development, the Deputy National
Chairman and member of the Senator Ali Modu
Sheriff’s National Working Committee (NWC), of
the PDP, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, said: “They ran away.
We can’t find them. We are still looking for them. I
don’t think they will come back to their so-called
temporary secretariat in Wuse 2.”
Similarly, a former member of the House of
Representatives, Hon. Bernard Mikko, told our
correspondent in a telephone interview yesterday
that the process of serving the committee with the
Notice of Contempt of court was completed but
that they were on the run.
“They have been running away because they know
the implication of what they did. But, we are
looking for them. They have abandoned their
offices but we will get them. They have been
moving only in the night. I think the day he
(Makarfi) will be seen, he will be speaking from the
prison.

“But while we are doing this, we are also looking
for a political solution within the ambit of the law;
they are members of PDP. So, it is not our aim to
send them to prison, but, it is our hope that we
would remove impunity from the books of the PDP.
You see, the problem lies with the governors. One
of them is the driving force,” he said.
On why Sheriff had called for the resignation of the
Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman, Senator Walid
Jibrin, Mikko said: “He (Jibrin) shouldn’t be partial
as BoT chairman. He seemed to be partial, that is
why Sheriff called for his resignation.”
A chieftain and PDP chairmanship aspirant,
Professor Taoheed Adedoja, in a telephone
interview, however, said: “No matter the litigation
in the party, elders, leaders and founders are
trying to find a solution.”
While Makarfi and the spokesman of the caretaker
committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, did not respond
to calls and text messages sent to their mobile
phones, the PDP Head of Publicity Unit, Chinwe
Nnorom, in a text message, said: “No, they are not
served (with court papers) yet.”
The caretaker committee members include:
Senator Ahmed Makarfi (chairman), Senator Ben
Obi (secretary), Prince Dayo Adeyeye, Odion
Ugbesia, Abdul Ningi, Kabiru Usman and Aisha
Aliyu.

Source: Naijabazeline

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