Trouble as Makarfi's PDP Faction Breaks Away and Forms New Party

Hehe....lThe Senator Ahmed Makarfi led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has successful formed a new party following a lengthy disagreement. Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sheriff are in serious battle over the Chairmanship position of the PDP The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed it received application for the registration of a party named Advanced Peoples Democratic Party believed to have come from supporters of Senator Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, The Nation reports. This is coming as Ali Modu Sheriff's faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) indicated that it will not allow the the new party to be registered as it perceives it to be a huge threat. Some PDP members loyal to the Ahmed Makarfi camp had wondered whether it might not be better for them to abandon the  party for Sheriff and his supporters in the aftermath of the recent verdict of the Court of Appeal recognising Sheriff as the rightful chairman of the party. The court also sacked the Caretaker Committee headed by Makarfi. The Deputy National Chairman to Sheriff, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, yesterday called moves to register  the Advanced PDP as  Advanced Free Fraud. Contacted yesterday on the Advanced PDP application, INEC’s spokesman, Mr. Nick Dazang said:”The Commission has received not less than 70 applications from associations seeking registration and it is processing them. “The association you mentioned must be one of them.” However, Dazang did not disclose the criteria to be used or the faction’s chance of succeeding. The Nation gathered that some members of the Makarfi faction of the PDP are trying to convince others many more people to joy the newly formed party. “Right from the beginning, Sheriff was a big mistake; he did eight years as governor on a party platform opposed to PDP and he has never been known for the kind of brotherly compromise that our people are expecting, “ a PDP chieftain said yesterday in Abuja. In a telephone chat yesterday,  Dr. Ojougboh  said: ”The PDP is a lawful franchise and we won’t associate with fraud.”He asked  PDP members and the general public not to “have anything to do with the so called Advanced PDP.”