We won’t resign, PDP caretaker committee tells George

The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, snubbed a call by one of the party’s chairmanship contestants, Chief Bode George, on its members to quit office.

The committee said it was determined to conduct a free, fair and transparent convention on December 9, before handing over power to elected members of the National Working Committee (NWC).

Bode George had through his Campaign Director General, Alhaji Ibrahim K. Aliyu, in a statement on Tuesday, alleged that the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker committee was no longer transparent in the build up to the convention and should resign.

“Makarfi’s action, to put it mildly, is sickening, untoward, blatantly tendentious, totally stripped of the typical moral high ground that often defines a wellmeaning, God-fearing arbitrating leadership,” he alleged.

Speaking with newsmen at the Wadata Plaza in Abuja, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said George’s allegations were wild and not specific.

“It pains us that on the one hand Chief Bode George who is fully aware of the pains we are still going through in Lagos in order to fairly and equitably carry everybody on board to the extent that we are being accused by others as siding with him is the same person accusing us of impunity.

“On the preparations for the convention, we have asked chairmanship aspirants to make inputs so that they have their eyes and ears in each committee. It was only Chief Bode George that did not attend the meeting we had with the aspirants.

“Commenting specifically on the issues raised by Chief Bode George through his campaign DG, we wish to state that Chief Bode George’s assertions were wild and not specific,” he said.