If one is asked to point exactly at the achievements of PDP's National Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi since it got victory through the Supreme Court, there is absolutely none. The committee failed in both its primary and secondary assignment. The former assignment was to unite all aggrieved party members and give to everyone, a sense of belonging while the major assignment is to give victory to the party and its members at election contests.

The Makarfi Led Caretaker Committee has proven that the Supreme Court judgment was more of a harm than good for the PDP. Each State Chapter of the party has been in so much mess and disarray. The persistent crisis in the party gets from bad to worse just as a day goes and the other comes. The performances of PDP in terms of election under the very weak watch of Senator Ahmed Makarfi has been stinkingly poor. If the PDP's result at the outcome of recent elections is anything to go by, it then means a lot of problems and failures await the party in 2019 and beyond.

The Guber election loss in Edo, Ondo and Anambra States respectively spells huge doom for the party in the nearest future. Just this morning, I woke up to read in the dailies that Ben Obi lost even in his own ward to an opposition party. Are these the set of people claiming the party's leadership and deciding its proper positioning ?? Do these people really worth handling the affairs of the party in their respective States not to talk of the National level Who knows if Makarfi can even record victory for PDP in his ward if an election is to be held in Kaduna State today ?

It is better to stand for something than to fall for nothing. Just as it is crystal clear to everyone that the days of Makarfi at Wadata Plaza are numbered as a proper convention would hold on the 9th of December, 2017, the leaders, elders and members of the party are enjoined ensure that the mantle of leadership is handed over to someone who can successfully carry out both the primary and secondary assignments as I have mentioned earlier. The Anambra Guber election is seemingly the last which Makarfi will witness as PDP's number one citizen. He started with failure in Edo and has ended on a 'note' in Anambra. The summation of Makarfi's reign in PDP is nothing but failure. May God put an end to this and give to us a Man that will give victory to the party and its members.


Sobowale Olayinka (VIBRANT)