#PDP CRISIS: Senate President under pressure to
dump GEJ, Tukur
The factionalization of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is having a toll on the political
balance of the Senate as its President, Senator
David Mark, has come under fresh pressure to
dump his support for President Goodluck
Jonathan and the national chairman of the party,
Mr. Bamanga Tukur.
LEGISREPORTS gathered from informed sources
that Senator Mark has been identified as a
bulwark of support for the President and the
Tukur- led PDP and as such has come under
heavy pressure from sections of the northern
political establishment to dump Jonathan.
Part of the pressure on Mark as gathered, is also
coming from some influential senators who have
switched allegiance to the splinter group of the
PDP led by Mr. Abubakar Baraje. These senators
who are doing the bidding of their governors and
top notchers of the anti-Jonathan bloc of the
north believe taking control of the senate as an
institution, is key in the plot to stop Jonathan in
2015.
About 22 senators have identified with the Baraje
group of the party which pulled away last
Saturday during the national convention of the
PDP at the Eagles Square in Abuja to another
venue. Former vice president Atiku Abukakar led
seven governors of the party and many members
of the national assembly to form a splinter group
of the ruling party.
The governors are Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano),
Aliyu Babangida (Niger), Aliyu Wamakko
(Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Murtala Nyarko
(Adamawa) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) who
had been suspended from the party since May
and so did no attend the convention at the
Eagles Square.
LEGISREPORTS also learnt that the threat
yesterday by Tukur to declare vacant seats of
senators and House of Representatives members
that have identified with the Baraje group have
also introduced another dimension in the political
crossfire in the PDP as Mark is being relied upon
by both factions to do their bidding.
“Specifically, the anti-Tukur senators expect the
senate president to offer them protection and
counter any move by the Tukur to actualize the
threat against their seats,” said a source, who
added that Mark is also being relied upon by the
presidency to help rein in the revolt by defecting
senators against the Tukur-led leadership which
is clearly backed by President Jonathan.
The source further informed that this scenario
has put the senate president in some form of
quandary which is “further compounded by the
fact that he quietly nurses a 2015 presidential
ambition for himself and is only watching the
waters before he decides to go headlong into the
fray for Jonathan’s job.”
LEGISREPORTS got to Senator Mark through his
media aide, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, who did not
deny our report but insisted that the senate
president as a leader in the party is involved in
peace moves that would unite the party, PDP.
#LEADERSHIP

Ain't possible to dump the head n**ga in charge. GEJ for 2015

I see revolution on the way.

David mark is leading a faction of nigeria leader called the IBB boys

Hope they factor Nigerians masses into their power tussle which is geared towards their selfish corrupt enrichment, if not what happened to Boko Haram via Civilian JTF could happen to them all, I didnt not say Egyptians should show us the way.