A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has asked the Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, and all the members of the committee to resign from office immediately. Babatope, who is also a former Minister of Aviation, said there was no doubt that Makarfi and the members of the PDP Caretaker Committee had been compromised. A statement issued and signed by Babatope on Friday faulted an earlier statement by a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Abdullahi Jalo, who was described as Makarfi’s ally. Any attempt to distort the process and force upon us a discredited and dubious leadership will provoke mass defection of Yoruba people from the PDP. The only way out now is for Makarfi and his entire Caretaker Committee members to resign immediately.

Source: Punch November 25, 2017 01:30 UTC