The factional Chairman of the Peoples Dsherremocratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said that the caretaker ‎chairman of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, is deceiving Nigerians over the current state of affairs in the party.
Sheriff, who stated this when he granted audience to Madam Esther Opera, the Edo State deputy governorship aspirant of his faction, said that he was waiting for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the names of gubernatorial candidates of the state, tomorrow, to start leading the campaign of his factional candidate, Mr Mathew Iduoriyekemwen‎.

It would be recalled that the INEC, recently, accepted M‎akarfi’s candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as PDP candidate for the Edo State governorship election.
But Sheriff said: “What the court says is that the only person that can submit PDP gubernatorial candidate to INEC for Edo and Ondo states is Sheriff.
“The court also said that starting from the date of last convention, May 21, what happened in Port Harcourt signed by Makarfi is illegal, null and void.‎
“So, I don’t know why they are deceiving Nigerians. Instead of following the rule of law, they are there wasting their time. They are only just trying to destroy our party by wasting peoples time, making pronouncement and plans that will not even get out of their backyards.
“If pastor Ize-Iyamu likes, let him campaign from now to a thousand years to come, the governorship candidate for Edo State is Matthew. There is no basis for his candidacy. He cannot come from a non-existing caretaker committee and rush to say he has become a candidate of PDP.”
In his reaction, Makarfi in a text message said, “are all governors, National Assembly members, BoT members and 29 out of the 30 state chapters where congresses were concluded, whom we represent, deceiving Nigerians and Sheriff not doing so?”