The
former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur, has said that he “passed through difficult times while in
office.” He thereby urged anyone aspiring to head the party to be
fearless, consistent and focused.
He spoke when some clerics visited and
prayed with him at his residence in Abuja on Saturday. He insisted that
he stood by every decision he took while in office.
Tukur said he made a huge sacrifice by
resigning from office as he expressed regrets that some members of the
PDP preferred the party to be run with the business as usual mentality,
because, according to him, such members were utterly opposed to any
form of change in running other party.
He said that his actions were aimed at
reforming the party and to deepen democracy and made Nigeria raise its
head among the comity of great nations.
He said, “I did my best to bring PDP to
good standard and international best practices on politics. I came in
with the mindset to reform the party by promoting the principle of
election instead of selection and the idea of consensus instead of
imposition.
“Alas, I was proved wrong by those who
believed that the old order in PDP must be retained, not for any good
thing, but for their selfish interests.”
He said but for the doggedness of
President Goodluck Jonathan and the wisdom he displayed in managing the
affairs of the PDP, “the party would have long collapsed” given what he
described as “evil plots” by certain members to completely destroy the
party.
He said his loyalty to President
Goodluck Jonathan and his government remained unwaivering as he pledged
to always support the President and the PDP to the best of his
abilities, at any given time.
He told the clerics not to stop praying
for President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP to overcome what he referred
to as their trying moments in the nation’s contemporary politics.
He said he found it unbelievable to
discover that some stakeholders of the party never had the interest of
PDP or Nigeria at heart.
According to him, personal ambitions,
crave for sudden wealth and unimaginable level of treachery usually got
the full attention of such stakeholders than anything else.
He also said that he didn’t collect any bulletproof car from any governorship aspirant as being speculated in some quarters.
Tukur said, “Some members got so
desperate that they turned to the media and funded all negative reports
against me. If you are familiar with all the negative media reports,
none attributed any wrongdoing to me. The reports only echoed the views
of the sponsors that I was unbending in my desire to change the bad
situation in PDP.
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