PDP Crisis: Jonathan To "Drop" Tukur

Some indications 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.

It was gathered by the Vanguard journalists that the governors since the election of Tukur alongside 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.
At the said meeting a source disclosed to the newsmen that the PDP governors loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan frowned at the attitude of the ruling party chairman. In their opinion, such an attitude has inflamed negative passion rather than calm frayed nerves.
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, present 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.


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