National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur said unequivocally yesterday that if
the governors and others succeed, his removal will put
President Goodluck Jonathan in a vulnerable position thereby
making it easy for him to be harmed or attacked by perceived
enemies, just as he stressed that some of the governors
nursing presidential ambition would their ways.
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and President Goodluck Jonathan
According to Tukur, he is a happy man because President
Jonathan is wiser and completely aware of the plots of some
few governors who see him as blocking what he described as
their discreet presidential ambition.
Fighting back at the governors elected on the platform of the
party who want his removal, Tukur who boasted that it was
not a crime for him to be loyal to President Jonathan who is
the leader of PDP, however asked if there was anything wrong
in being loyal, which explains why they want him axed as
PDP national chairman, with a shop for his replacement.
Bamanga Tukur who spoke to Journalists through his Special
Adviser on Political Affairs, Senator Abubakar Umar Gada
Sunday said, "as far as the national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is concerned, the PDP governors are loyal to the President and the national, except for a few with hidden agenda who are nursing the plot to remove Bamanga Tukur
because of their personal presidential ambition.
"These few governors that are clamouring for the removal of
Tukur are doing so with a hidden agenda to make President
Jonathan because of his loyalty. These governors that are
clamouring for the removal of the national chairman are
known with hidden presidential ambition. The plot is remove
Tukur and make Jonathan vulnerable, because the national
chairman is blocking their political ambition"
It will be recalled that Governors elected on the platform of
the PDP have in the past two weeks mounted pressures for the
removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, just as they resolved on
Sunday last week that Tukur must go if there must be peace in
the party.
Rising from a meeting held at the Akwa Ibom State
Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, last week, the PDP governors after the well over three hours meeting as gathered
came to a conclusion that the PDP national Chairman must go
as the only solution to the political logjam in the PDP against
the backdrop that since he became chairman of the party in
2012, the party has not seen peace because of what they
termed his administrative style which does not go in tandem
with members of the PDP.
Though Journalists were not briefed at the end of the meeting,
but 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.
Accusing him as being a stumbling block in the wheel of
progress of the party, the PDP governors as gathered recommended that Tukur be posted as an ambassador to may
be one of the Asia Countries.
Speaking further, Senator Gada who noted that the PDP
national chairman had kept quiet for some time with the
feeling that these governors will see reason and stop what h
termed. their negative campaign against Alhaji Bamanga
Tukur, asked, "What is the offence of the national chairman
that the governors will be asking for his removal".
According to Senator Gada, the plot of the PDP governors
calling for the removal of Tukur did not meet any sense
against the backdrop that none of the governors had made
legitimate requests that were not granted, adding, "Which of
these governors have asked or made a legitimate request that
the national chairman did not grant their requests? What
wrong has the national chairman done that a few of these
governors would be asking for his head?
"The only crime that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has committed is
because he is loyal to President Jonathan. Do the few PDP
governors clamouring for Tukur's removal as national
chairman want a national chairman that would be disobedient
to the President?
"By setting the gimmick for the removal of Tukur as national
chairman, they are going to make the president vulnerable and
open for attacks. But we are happy that the President is wiser
and completely aware of the plots of these few governors,
who see Tukur as blocking their discreet presidential
ambition."
Via: Vanguard
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