AFTER hours of intrigues, and intense horse-trading among President
Goodluck Jonathan, governors of the 36 states and some top brass of the
ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Industries Minister and
Second Republic Governor of old Gongola State, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has
been accepted as the consensus National Chairmanship candidate of the
party in tomorrow’s national convention in Abuja.
Indeed, the faces of those, who will run the affairs of the party are
also becoming clearer as former Governor of Osun State, Prince
Olagunsoye Oyinlola was also endorsed as consensus secretaryship
candidate; Dr Sam Jaja, deputy national secretaryship candidate; Mr
Olisa Metu,publicity secretary; Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, organising
secretary and Dr Kema Chikwe, women leader.
This is coming as North-East governors over ruled the outcome of
Tuesday’s zonal congress of the party that side-stepped Tukur and
elected Dr. Musa Babayo as zonal national chairmanship candidate. Tukur
polled two votes at the contest while Babayo had 14 votes.
The North-East governors teamed up with their colleagues from the
other zones, who, according to sources, met with the President for
several hours last night. Vanguard learnt that the meeting was still on
as of press time.
With these endorsements, other aspirants are expected to drop their
ambitions to make way for a roller-coaster convention tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Tukur, has accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar
of allegedly orchestrating his defeat in order not to jeopardize his
(Atiku) presidential ambition in 2015. Tukur alleged that the former
Vice President brainwashed officials of the party in his North-East base
to go ahead and frustrate his ambition.
This is just as eleven candidates in the race for the national
chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were last night
engaged in different schemes to outwit one another as battle lines
changed among them as new alliances were formed among the candidates for
the top party job.
VANGUARD NEWSPAPER
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