THE
internal strife within the Peoples Democratic Party deepened on
Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan’s intervention failing to
pacify the PDP governors who are adamant in their resolve to remove
their party’s National Chairman, Bamangar Tukur.
Jonathan’s three-hour meeting with the governors at the Villa on Thursday, sources confirmed to The PUNCH, failed to extract a commitment from the states’ chief executives to sheathe their swords in the battle against Tukur.
Myriads of assurances from party
chieftains to the contrary notwithstanding, the governors were said to
be bent on removing Tukur over his alleged meddling in the Adamawa PDP
politics and unilateral dissolution of the executive council in the
state chapter of the party.
Many members of the NWC, led by the
Deputy National Chairman, Mr. Sam Jaja, had denounced and rescinded the
dissolution of the Adamawa exco.
At the end of their meeting in the
Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday evening, the governors had called
for the immediate convening of the National Executive Committee meeting
of the party as well as endorsed the decision of the NWC rescinding the
dissolution of the PDP Adamawa State Executive.
Sources close to the Nigeria Governors’
Forum confided in our correspondents that the state chief executives
were tired of Tukur, a second republic governor of old Gongola State,
and that he must go.
Sensing that the governors, who are said
to have influence on majority of members of the party’s NEC, could
eventually have their way in sacking him, Tukur was said to have vowed
that almost all the members of the NWC would go with him.
Tukur is seen as an appointee of the President, who foisted him on the party at its National Convention in Abuja in March, 2012.
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