PDP crisis: Tukur must go, PDP governors tell Jonathan

ABUJA-STRONG indications emerged Sunday that the days
of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP Alhaji Bamanga Tukur are numbered as the governors
elected on the platform of the party yesterday resolved that he
must go if there must be peace in the party.
*PDP National Chairman, Dr Bamanga Tukur
Rising from a three-hour meeting held at the Akwa Ibom State
Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, the PDP governors came
to a conclusion that the PDP national Chairman must go as
the only solution to the political logjam in the PDP. The
governors argued that since he became chairman of the party
in 2012, the party has not witnessed peace because of his
administrative style which does not go down well party
members.

Vanguard gathered that the governors decided at the meeting
that the North East geo-political zone of the country which
produced Bamanga Tukur should immediately search for his
replacement ahead of the March 2014 mid term Special
convention where Tukur will finally leave as PDP national
Chairman.

Meanwhile, from the zone, Bauchi state is actually angling for
the position pushing for the former Acting National Secretary
and a former Chairmanship aspirant, Dr. Musa Babayo as well
as former BauchiState governor, Alhaji Adamu Mauzu.
The governors at the end of Sunday's meeting hurried to
Presidential villa for another round of meeting with President
Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo, and
chairman, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih
where they will be briefed on the decision of the PDP
governors.

It will be recalled that since the election of Tukur along side
other members of the National Working Committee, NWC,
the governors have been calling for the sack of Bamanga
Tukur over his style of administration
Vanguard gathered that at Sunday's meeting, the PDP
governors were said to have 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
overheating the polity which culminated in the dumping of the
party by five PDP governors to All Progressives Congress,
APC.

It will also be recalled that seven aggrieved governors under
the name G- 7 were at logger head with the Tukur led
National Working Committee, NWC. They were the chairman
of the Northern States Governors' Forum, NSGF, and
governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu; Governors
Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State; Rabiu Kwakwanso of
Kano; Sule Lamido of Jigawa; Murtala Nyako of Adamawa ;
Aliyu Wamakko and Abdulfattah Ahmed of Kwara. Of this
group, only Sule Lamido and Aliyu Babangida of Niger did
not join their colleagues while others left which the PDP
governors said was not good for the party ahead of 2015.
Sunday's meeting which started at past 6pm came to an end at
9.35pm.

Present at the meeting were the Chairman, PDP governors'
Forum and Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio;
Theodore Orji (Abia); Martins Elechi, Ebonyi; Idris Wada
(kogi), Saidu Dakingari, Kebbi; Sullivan Chime (Enugu); Isa
Yuguda (Bauchi); Ibrahim Shema (Katsina); Liyel Imoke
(Cross River), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Emmanuel Uduaghan
(Delta); Garba Umar (Taraba); Ramallan Yero of Kaduna and
deputy governor of Niger State.

Via: Vanguard