₦airaland Forum

FreeGlobe: well managed by Tinubu? This ACN handbag when will you get tired with famzing ACN. And the worst is when you lie you are from Delta. You Yoruba boy. or are you itsekiri. Take Delta out of your mouth and face your SW states.

Afam4eva: Now, we're talking. There's no verifying stat anywhere to prove which state is more well managed. We can only keep speculating.

Afam4eva: Even if i list states that are better managed than Lagos, you will say it's a lie and i can't prove that they're more managed just as you can't prove that Lagos is more managed. Everything is based on speculation.

TheViper: Haha...what a brainwashed fellow! Lessons on how to talk too much, arresting poor people all over the place, and taking picture all the time on project sites? Or talking stupidly about other states and erecting toll gates?

Sincere 9gerian: Apologise for what? Didn't Buhari apostles claim he has the ability transform the country with immediate allacrity? What has changed? If anything has changed, what then is the new incubation period?

TheViper: Did you read what i wrote before you quote me? If Lagos was not the capital city of Nigeria before, its economy will not be different from that of Ogun, Osun and other states in Nigeria.

Sincere 9gerian: Ok. If you guys didn't mean 24hrs, within how many hours, days or years did you guys claim Buhari would solve ALL of our problems?

Many of Buhari's apostles on this forum have bombarded us with how a Buhari as President would have ended the problem of epileptic power supply in 24hrs. They claim Buhari would have acted swiftly to put an end to many of our problems with immediate allacrity.

PDP bigger than you, Tukur tells govs



January 18, 2013 | 2:00 am

News

.Secret recording of govs’ meeting raises dust
.Party’s NWC fails to hold

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Henry Umoru

ABUJA—ON a day governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP largely boycotted a peace parley scheduled to resolve their face-off with their National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the PDP chairman warned, yesterday, that not one of the governors nor the president was bigger than the party.

The warning from Alhaji Tukur came as it emerged that the ranks of the governors may finally have been broken by news of an alleged secret tape recording of a meeting of the governors which was allegedly transmitted through Tukur to the president. The tape  was allegedly the basis for the presidency’s realization of the depth of ill-feelings among the governors towards the president. But Tukur’s camp quickly dismissed such speculation as nonsense.

Speaking while receiving the party’s newest governor, Governor Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State at the PDP national secretariat yesterday, Tukur warned the governors that power was transient.

Tukur who was himself a governor 30 years ago, spoke against the background of the boycott of the scheduled peace meeting meant to reconcile the governors with Tukur over the face-off that arose from the crisis in the Adamawa State chapter of the party.



Tukur receives Yero

Yero who ascended to the governorship following the death of Sir Patrick Yakowa, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State last December, was in the party secretariat to familarise himself with the national leadership of the party. He came along with his deputy, Nuhu Bajoga; the acting chairman of the state chapter of the PDP, Alhaji Isyaku Birni Gwari; business man Alhaji Sani Dauda; former Executive Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Hamisu Abubakar, among others.

Tukur urged the governors, other elected government functionaries and the people to work towards ensuring that the institution of government was made very strong and not revolve round personalities.

Tukur said: “As governors, we should all agree to move our people from the position of want to the position of plenty through empowering them by giving them education to defend and empower themselves. We as leaders of your party, our job is to ensure we support all actions being done to help the promotion and development of our people.

“For us, the party is supreme, it is neither the NWC nor the president and the governors; let us build institutions, not personalities. It is the institution of the party itself that is supreme because all of us come in and go. All of us are birds of passage; we come, we go.

“But we must do our best to support institutions of governance. Once that institution is respected, organized and committed, we can be sure that we will be able to raise our heads high in the comity of nations.”

….Hails Yakowa

Tukur who hailed the late Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna, however stressed the need for peace in the country if development must be achieved in all its ramifications, Peace is important and peace cannot reign unless security is assured.

“I am committed to reconciliation, without confrontation. We must run a party based on justice. Therefore, we must reach out to all – local councils, states, centre and the entire PDP family.

“We must mobilise them and take care of their needs, as enshrined in our party manifesto. We can only give them dividends of democracy, if we are truly united. Your late governor was a symbol of peace. I want you to emulate your predecessor, who was a brother to all. As party leaders, we shall support all efforts you intend to take to develop Kaduna State.”

Nothing that the late Yakowa was an epitome of peace, he urged Yero to strive and ensure that there was peace in the state as well as ensure that he works towards the unity and development of Kaduna State.

Speaking earlier, Governor Mukhtar Yero, who declared his support for the party and Alhaji Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC, also declared support for President Goodluck Jonathan. He admonished Nigerians to support the Federal Government, just as he disclosed that security would top his agenda for the people of Kaduna State.

When asked if age would not deter him, he said:  “Age is not the issue, it is the experience; I have been in government for a long time now, I have been a commissioner for three years and a deputy governor for two and a half years; I can say I know a lot about governance, so we would try our best to see how we can move forward.



PDP Chairman, Bamanga Tukur

“Our major priority is to ensure security in the state because security is very important and key to any development, so our main focus is security; we want to see how we can secure the state and then how we can unite ourselves because we need to unite to develop the state.”

The governor hailed his predecessor as a perfect Nigerian with whom he had a good working relationship and who he said also taught him the elements of governance. According to him the late Yakowa left behind very big shoes.

Governor Yero said:  “We are here today, to commiserate with the entire PDP family over the death of our former governor. He was one of your sons who contributed greatly to this party. A great loss, not only to PDP, but the entire PDP family.

“We had a very good working and personal relationship. He was a good man to work with, who made tremendous efforts to make us understand how the public sector works. So, we really missed his experience.

“Secondly, we are here to introduce myself officially as the new governor of the state.

We assure you of our loyal commitment to you and the cause of the party and the national working committee.

‘’We are ready to support you and whatever you want us to do for the party. We are loyal to the party and Mr. President, our prayer is that God guides our President, because his success is the success of all of us. We are very loyal to him and the party.”

Governor Yero’s presence at the PDP secretariat nonetheless, the majority of the governors were yesterday absent at the scheduled troubleshooting meeting of the governors with the NWC.

In the absence of the governors Tukur, however, continued to receive solidarity visits from major stakeholders in the polity.

One of the latest to visit him was the Asagba of Asaba, Obi Chike  Edozien, who called at the national chairman’s residence in the Wuse 2 area of the federal capital.

The visit was, however, described as personal given the fact that Tukur’s wife, Hajiya Fatima Tukur hails from Asaba.

New twist to PDP crisis

Meanwhile, a new twist was yesterday added to the lingering feud in the ruling party following an allegation that Tukur transmitted the recording of a secret meeting by its governors to President Jonathan.

The allegation gained grounds with reports that one of the northern governors loyal to Tukur and Jonathan had made a secret recording of the meeting held by his colleagues and later passed same to the chairman who in turn presented same to the President.

The tape, it was gathered, made it possible for Jonathan to understand the depth of the crisis in the party and the level of loyalty of each of the PDP governors to him and the national chairman.

But Tukur promptly denounced the report, saying that he did not transmit any secret tape to the President, as claimed in the report.

A source close to the chairman described the allegation of his involvement in the tape transmission to Mr. President as “utter fabrication, falsehood, and idle talk.

The source quoted Tukur as saying that he was too occupied with effort to reorganize the party and bring about the needed unity and peace to think of engaging in frivolity.

The source said, “For now the national chairman is too busy focusing on building unity and consensus and assisting government to provide good governance.

According to Tukur, such claims were deliberately designed to cause disaffection within the ranks of PDP members.

Sincere 9gerian: Why not open another thread for whatever issue you want thrashed out. You'r not a novice on this issue as you'v been opening threads upon threads on this forum. Also some of us commented, for or against, on threads you opened in the past.

You cannot have the liberty to open your own thread and at the same dictate to others which topic they should open thread on.

Meanwhile, this thread is about what Buhari and his CPC are doing in Nasarawa. What TRANSFORMATION is taking place in Nasarawa as we speak?

GARRI (x7):
What has Goodluck Agbaya Jonathan and his PDP been doing in Delta, Bayelsa, Ebonyi and Abia state??

berem: are you surprised i know your name? you no know say i be Jack Bauer?

Of course he is a big disappointment. it's a shame that as rich as Delta state, there is no meaningful development. I haven't seen any deltan who says good of uduaghan. likewise other governors who have failed in their various states.

berem: Mac, you never talk wetin Uduaghan do you.

TouchDown: This thread has been a waste of my time. Came to see if there would be any information on the amount budgeted for feeding but I didn't see any. When you assert something, the onus is on you to prove that which you assert. This has been a one-sided affair and I'm not happy. I came to see a good debate, I don't like the way Gbawe and Naptu rode roughshod on you.

'Sincere' my good man, you're not doing a good job. You need to buckle up. I don't like the way you keep getting a.s.s-whooped on these threads.