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PDP allows Adeniran, other contestants to set Dec 9 convention up for failure

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November 23, 2017

The Peoples Democratic Party has announced it’s not its call to enforce the contents of the peace accord the national chairmanship aspirants of the party signed recently.

The party’s spokesman Dayo Adeyeye said this in Abuja on Wednesday following the threat by one of the contestants, Prof, Tunde Adeniran to not abide by the accord.

Eight national chairmanship aspirants of the party recently signed a peace accord, promising to maintain the peace and cooperate with anyone that eventually win during the December 9 national convention.

Adeyeye said the party could not do anything about it even if Adeniran decided to back out.

“People sign peace accord but we have no way to enforce it. If they flouted it there is nothing we can do. It is a matter that we will continue to revisit from time to time,” Adeyeye said.

“We were not involved in the drafting of the contents of the accord. The chairmanship aspirants themselves drafted it and brought it here. We only coordinated the signing.

Therefore, we cannot force them to abide by the contents of the accord.”

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Adeyeye also denied the rumours that the party’s national chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, was nursing a presidential ambition.

The spokesman urged party stakeholders from the South to harmonise their positions on which zone should produce the national chairman, pointing out that failure to do that would mean that only the December 9 convention would solve it.

The opposition party has been battling wot strings of crisis, and may do so as it heads for its national convention December 9.

On the chairmanship, Adeniran and another chairmanship aspirant Olabode George have called on Makarfi to resign over an alleged bias in the running of the party ahead of the national convention.

They complained about the composition of committees to supervise congresses in some states.

But Adeyeye insisted the leadership of the party never took nominations from any of the chairmanship aspirants as being alleged, but from the states and other organs of the party.