Senator Ahmed Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna State, has endorsed PDP candidates Atiku Abubakar for president and Isa Muhammad Ashiru for governor of Kaduna State. He also urged PDP members to band together and defeat the APC in the general elections of 2023.
Makarfi maintains that no party should be permitted to hold political or executive office in Nigeria if it does not respect the nation’s diversity, particularly its religious diversity.
This was said by the two-term senator as he escorted the state’s prospective governor to a meeting with members of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Muslim Ummahs, and Christian clergy from the Christian Association of Nigeria.
Makarfi, a former National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the PDP, said, “You will never find Ashiru lacking in terms of equity and fairness, hence he deserves our support to reposition the state from its present polarised state.
“There is so much frustration in the land. So, we must get it right on the first ballot. Deceit was used in the past but cannot work again in 2023 but the opposition must come together to chase out bad government.
“APC strategy is to divide people on various grounds and now religion is being used but we must not fall for it because in a divided society you need to bring people together.”
Makarfi also called on the party’s Governorship hopeful to restore the teaching of religious studies in schools for the purpose of restoring morality and proper upbringing of children.
The former Governor reminded adherents of the two major religious bodies that while at the helm of affairs in the state, he unified residents of the state under the PDP umbrella.
He, however, lamented that the state has never been so polarised on religious grounds under the ruling APC, urging them to ensure that PDP was voted to power in 2023.