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PDP Would Have Won If I Wasn’t Removed, Says Tukur by Calyb(m): 10:43pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
A former National
Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic
Party, Alhaji Bamanga
Tukur, said on
Thursday that if he was
not forced out of office,
his party would have won the 2015 general elections.
Tukur, who spoke with journalists at his residence in Abuja
as one of the activities to mark his 80th birthday, said the
party was winning elections when he was in office.
The former PDP chairman was forced to resign from office
when he sanctioned some governors of the party.
Tukur, who was a former governor of the defunct Gongola
State, identified lack of internal democracy as the bane of
the former ruling party.
The defeat suffered by the PDP was unprecedented as the
then opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, won
the power at the centre and many states where the PDP had
hitherto remained unbeaten.
Tukur however said the situation would have been different
if he had not been booted out of office unceremoniously.
He said, “Well, when I was there I won elections and in the
same vein, if I was there I also expect to win the election.
“But first and foremost, this is a democracy and in every
democratic system, you have the opposition and the party in
government.
“So, it is time (for the opposition) because it is a democracy
and it is the people who decide who they want to vote for
and that is what the people have done.
“Sure the PDP will rediscover itself. I am sure about that; it is
their own party and they can find out what have gone wrong.
“If for 16 years people allowed you to rule them and in the
17th year they say no, you have to find out why they said
no.”
He said he faced problems in the party because some of
those he described as strong members of the party were
afraid of election and would rather prefer selection.
He said such powerful men were ready to leave the party,
but he decided to leave for them.
Tukur added, “Well, I thought we were in a system of
democracy and my views were such that what I believed in
were what I will preach.
“I wanted election and people said they wanted selection. If
the majority or the strong people in the PDP did not believe
in it then the choice or the next thing for me to do was to
leave.
“It is either I leave or they leave but I did not want them to
leave, so, I decided to leave. At that time, people said I was
preaching internal democracy instead of imposition. So, it
was difficult for me to sit down and be part of them.”
Despite the way he was treated in his party, Tukur said he
would not defect to the APC, saying that it would be difficult
for him to change his principle at 80.
He said, “At 80, what do you want somebody to do? You
want to change somebody’s character at 80? Is it possible?
“At 80, you remain because you cannot bend. You are
unbendable anymore and if you do it by force, you will
break.” http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-would-have-won-if-i-wasnt-removed-says-tukur/ |
Re: PDP Would Have Won If I Wasn’t Removed, Says Tukur by CharliParker: 10:44pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
Oga Tukur if you were to be there at the time of the election as PDP chairman it would have been a great damage to that party PDP. |
Re: PDP Would Have Won If I Wasn’t Removed, Says Tukur by ladyF(f): 10:44pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
Lol....PDP was losing already when you were still there. |
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