Friday, 23 March 2012

PDP CONVENTION FALLOUT: Tukur emerges consensus candidate

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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