PDP Offers Tambuwal Sokoto Governorship Ticket



The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose membership is fast being depleted by the defection of party bigwigs to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a bid to keep the House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, under its umbrella.

The party is dangling before the speaker, a key ally of Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, who is one of the five PDP governors that have defected to APC, the ticket to fly the flag of the ruling party in the 2016 governorship election in the state.

To demonstrate its sincerity, the party Thursday cancelled the planned inauguration of the caretaker committee for the state chapter of the PDP to enable Tambuwal nominate candidates who will protect his interest in the party's affairs in Sokoto.

However, the PDP inaugurated the caretaker committee for Kwara State, another state where the PDP has lost a large number of members, including the Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his predecessor who is now a senator, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to APC.
PDP's bid to discourage Tambuwal from defecting to APC came against the backdrop of the defection of nearly all top political officer holders in Sokoto State, including House members from the state, 27 lawmakers from the state House of Assembly, cabinet members, local government chairmen and councillors who followed Wamakko to APC.

Speculations are rife that the speaker is only bidding his time and may soon join other top politicians from the state in APC.

However, aware of the grave implications of allowing the House speaker to cross carpet, it was learnt Thursday that it had moved to make offers to the speaker to keep him in the party.

Notwithstanding the gale of defections from the ruling party, Senate President David Mark expressed optimism yesterday that this would not lead to the disintegration of PDP as party leaders were taking steps to arrest the situation.

Also, PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, described the defection of the 27 lawmakers from the Sokoto assembly as democracy in action.

It was gathered that the decision to lobby Tambuwal to remain in PDP, which prompted the party to shelve the inauguration of the caretaker committee members for Sokoto State, was reached at a meeting between Jonathan and Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio.

The meeting between the president and the governor, THISDAY learnt, came on the heels of Tambuwal’s visit to Akpabio in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday, during which the governor begged him to stop further defections of PDP House members to APC following the switch of political allegiance by 37 federal lawmakers.

The party had recently dissolved both the executive committees in its local chapters in Kwara and Sokoto States following the defection of their governors.

But while the members of the Sokoto State caretaker committee of the party were waiting to be inaugurated along with their Kwara State counterparts in Abuja yesterday, they were told that only those of Kwara would be sworn in.

Members of the Sokoto State PDP Caretaker Committee, including the nominated chairman, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu and the Secretary, Ahmadu Sulieman, were already seated at the national secretariat of PDP waiting to be inaugurated when word came from the presidency that the committee should not be inaugurated until further notice.
Sources said a list of new committee members, comprising loyalists to Tambuwal, was being complied and would be inaugurated later.

Inaugurating the Kwara State Caretaker Committee with Solomon Edoja as chairman and Jubril Bala Jos as secretary, Tukur charged them with the task of ensuring PDP wins next year's governorship election in the state.

Speaking later on the defection of 27 members of the Sokoto assembly to APC, he described it as democracy in action.

“This is democracy in action where freedom of choice is entrenched. Their defection is in line with their governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who had earlier defected.
When 27 people leave, 270,000 will come in; this is democracy by election. If few had left, many would come in,” he said.

Tukur who restated his belief in democracy said there would no longer be imposition of candidates as the era had gone in PDP.

Also yesterday, Mark expressed hope that PDP would overcome the challenges posed by the loss of its members to APC.

“We will arrest the current situation and save our party from further disintegration. Some Nigerians are talking about the tsunami in the PDP because of the defection by some members of our party holding elective and non-elective positions.

“But as leaders, we will not sit by and continue to allow this drift. We shall do the needful and ensure that we save our great party,” he said.

Mark, who spoke while hosting the British Parliamentary Undersecretary of States for Justice, Jeremy Wright, in Abuja, also called for a global approach to tackle terrorism and end the menace threatening world peace.

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Politics sweet o! I thought somebody won't give a damn.

Had I know is the senior of it is too late, had you know yOur president shouldn't have troubled Amaechi that far. Left his primary assignment chasing after a Governor, refused to honour his promise of not contesting in 2015. Tukur una don destroy the party, the end of tsunami is disastrous, the fair of APC is the beginning of wisdom

Anybody that does not see islamic domination of the country is d*ft.

okosodo: Anybody that does not see islamic domination of the country is d*ft.

You sound like someone with a vaccuum in his skull.

The news available to the Nigerian public these days are so contradictory that one needs to be careful of his/her comments to avoid appearing foolish the next day because of poor quality of reportage made by assumptions and from unconfirmed sources.

The other day, we were made to know that Gov. Akpabio was out of favour with the President after the later discovered the clandestine ambition of the former. This very report has just put on hold all we thought actually happened by given another perspective to the relationship between GEJ and Akpabio.

It was gathered that the decision to lobby Tambuwal to remain in PDP, which prompted the party to shelve the inauguration of the caretaker committee members for Sokoto State, was reached at a meeting between Jonathan and Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio.

The meeting between the president and the governor, THISDAY learnt, came on the heels of Tambuwal’s visit to Akpabio in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday, during which the governor begged him to stop further defections of PDP House members to APC following the switch of political allegiance by 37 federal lawmakers.

okosodo: Anybody that does not see islamic domination of the country is d*ft.

Anybody that does not see the stupidity in this statement is a d*ft.

okosodo: Anybody that does not see islamic domination of the country is d*ft.

you have a percetional problem and I hope you know that?

Now I know why you talk, reason & act the ways you do things because your brain is direct proportional to the size of your flat head.

PDP is undergoing systemic political chromatography, purging herself of all the bad eggs. The statement by Tukur is a thorough indication of democratic idealism in action. We wanna see more criminals defecting to APC, there by making PDP, cleaner, better and more principled.


As always, FRESH AIR

Billyonaire: PDP is undergoing systemic political chromatography, purging herself of all the bad eggs. The statement by Tukur is a thorough indication of democratic idealism in action. We wanna see more criminals defecting to APC, there by making PDP, cleaner, better and more principled.
As always, FRESH AIR

....tell me something.

Billyonaire: PDP is undergoing systemic political chromatography, purging herself of all the bad eggs. The statement by Tukur is a thorough indication of democratic idealism in action. We wanna see more criminals defecting to APC, there by making PDP, cleaner, better and more principled.


As always, FRESH AIR

yes we need more honest sincere politicians in the pdp..... like bamagar tukur the chairman known also known as a great beneficiary of the fuel subsidy largesse, we need great democrats like Alamesighigha also a great cross dresser, we need super politicians like chris uba and athur Eze, aha I forgot BODE George.....I also forgot super spokes man Dr Doyin Okupe who constructed the benue Enugu express road, and owerri orlu road......continue.... I feel the fresh air we have 1.6million new jobs and the price of goods and services in Nigeria is minimal, our hospitals are so good even when the presidents wife fell ill and the president himself fell ill he spent it in one of the hospitals in Abuja and Madam peace was treated for 4months in Abuja....the roads are beautiful our airspace is prefect the education system is good,
team fresh air everything is good in nigeria

The PDP must certainly come out of this stronger. The APC would have given them a run for their money, if they maintained an ideological stand- point, instead acting like what they criticize the PDP of doing.

Giving Tambuwal a gubernatorial ticket in sokoto will be like doing same fo Ribadu in Admawa or El rufa'I in Kaduna. These names are known by newspaper- reading Nigerians and unpopular in their states.


The PDP gubernatorial ticket in Sokoto should be given to Shagari for his loyalty to the Party over the years and Bafarawa for his political strenght. These two would defeat a thousand Tambuwal and Wammako.

I believe giving tambuwal this ticket will prepare him for further higer responsibilities come 2019 when gej must have served his second term. By that tome we must have gotten the opportunity to assess and disect him if matured to rule tjis country. Definitely his acievements will speak for him then.

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raytony: Politics sweet o! I thought somebody won't give a damn.

THEY ARE FORCED TO GIVE THAT DAMN.

This one no be news na, the speculations has been spreading since.

It seems jonathan now

was actually think the otehr day, a VP slot with GEJ would be the offer he wont turn down

the current governor has the upper hand in who becomes the next governor

So basically its:

"Hey, Tambuwal, leave the looting in the center to us. Meanwhile, here's a Northern State you can loot dry if you wish..."

Let's await Tambuwal's response.

ISpiksDaTroof: So basically its:

"Hey, Tambuwal, leave the looting in the center to us. Meanwhile, here's a Northern State you can loot dry if you wish...["

Let's await Tambuwal's response.

a very DRY state as well

The offer is a political master stroke.
If Tambuwal accepts which he is likely to then a lot would change.
He cannot get the presidential ticket in PDP and truthfully he cannot decamp today and get APC's ticket so what political future does he have?
If APC wins the presidency and have majority they would not keep a Northern speaker, and if he continues like this and Jonathan wins he would not he able to hold his office.
Even presently, if APC has real control of the HOR they are likely to want to remove him so there is a good chance he would take the offer.