PDP crisis: Jonathan bows to pressure,
to ‘sacrifice’ Tukur
on december 03, 2013 at 8:56 pm in news
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA- FRESH facts have emerged from
Sunday meeting President Goodluck
Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo
and governors elected on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic party, PDP held that
the National chairman of the party, Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur will be dropped in March
next year during the mid term convention.
Vanguard gathered that the governors since
the election of Tukur along side other
members of the National Working
Committee, NWC have been calling for the
sack of Bamanga Tukur against the
backdrop that his manner of administration
never rallied with the governors, just as the
governors were said have again demanded
for his removal.
Sule Lamido and Tukur
At the Sunday night meeting, a source told
Vanguard that the PDP governors loyal to
President Goodluck Jonathan frowned at
the attitude of the national chairman of the
party which they noted has inflamed
negative passion rather than calm frayed
nerves as well as overheated the polity.
It was also gathered that a former deputy
national chairman of the party and now a
governor of Katsina State from North West,
Ibrahim Shema; Isa Yuguda of Bauchi;
Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa; Emmanuel
Uduaghan of Delta; Godswill Akpabio of
Akwa Ibom; Liyel Imoke of Cross River and
Jonah Jang of plateau state who were at the
meeting, were said to have told the
President and Vice President Sambo that
the move to ask Tukur to go at the special
convention next year was the only panacea
to lingering political quagmire in PDP.
Gabriel Suswan of Benue state was absent
as he was said to be out of the country.
More details soon--Vanguard.

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