Makarfi said he could still contest the party’s presidential ticket despite Atiku’s defection noting that Atiku had earlier left the PDP and had just returned. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has not ruled himself out of clinching the PDP presidential ticket.Makarfi reportedly made this known in an interview published in the current edition of The Interview magazine.“By the time I leave as a caretaker committee chairman on December 9 or 10, there will still be 10 months to the party primaries. By any law or the party’s guidelines, I’m not excluded,” Makarfi said.In a report by Punch, Makarfi said he could still contest the party’s presidential ticket despite Atiku Abubakar’s defection noting that Atiku had earlier left the PDP and had just returned. However, the ex-governor expressed optimism for a deluge of returnees to PDP following Atiku’s return.“We are expecting a harvest of defections from the APC.
