The National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said that those calling for his removal are plotting to make President Goodluck Jonathan vulnerable.
He said this based on the increased clamour by the PDP governors for his removal from office.
The party chairman wondered whether loyalty had become a crime in the nation’s polity.
Tukur, whose removal is considered one of the major conditions needed to restore peace to the troubled party, is also fighting to keep his job.
As part of their agitation for his removal, the governors met in Abuja, on Friday night, where they resolved that Tukur should resign in order to stem the tide of defections from the party.
The party has lost five of its governors to the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, a situation which is seen by many as a bad omen for the ruling party which is desirous of retaining power in 2015.
However, Tukur, who spoke with journalists through his Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Senator Umar Gada, in Abuja on Sunday, said some of the governors were not loyal to the President.
He said while he was aware that majority of them could be loyal to the President and the party, he, however, said there could be some whose loyalty were be in doubt.
Gada said, “As far as the national chairman, Tukur, is concerned, the PDP governors are loyal to the President and the national organ of the party, except for a few (of them) with hidden agenda who are hatching the plot to remove Tukur because of their personal presidential ambition.
“These few governors that are clamouring for the removal of Tukur are doing so with a hidden agenda to get back at President Jonathan.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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So you are more powerful than the president... GEJ needs no protection he is the president. Just let him do the right thing to get legitimacy.
ReplyDeleteKubi Ben:Ecclesiastes 4:1 NKJV
ReplyDeleteThen I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.
It is an abomination for kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.
I have not come to preach to anyone because am not a preacher and am not even aspiring to become one.
Despite all the prayers and the preachings that is going on at our churches every Sundays and weekly days, atrocities have become our Bishops, General overseas and imam's at our worship centers and that brought me to ask the same question as did by Sunny Okosie in 1986 when he released his hit Album (Which way Nigeria? ) when one speak about the evil that our leaders are commuting on daily basis if the ethnic fools did not counter ur critics the church people who are cowards and blind will tell you to go and pray for our leaders and I ask again, how can we be praying for our wicked leaders with an empty stomach when they are exercising their wickedness in abundance? if u are in their shoes will ever think of change knowing that that will bring an end to the opportunities that u have? .
Insanity they say, is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, how can we continue to pray for these guys haven seen what they are doing which is wasting our resources, no accountability and when they come out at network news they acknowledge that their is corruption in the system with so many corrupt officials, ask them Who are those corrupt people? they don't know, maybe because i dont have any of my family members in government or politics that's why am saying all this as some people may view it but the if I be a child of God, I should be able to stand for what is right irrespective of the one who is commuting the crime.
Its time and we have grown wiser and we have found out that it is the same people who are helping us to track down the corrupt people are corruption themselves and we can't hide our shame and be praying for God to help us, its just a waste of time and energy, we need to forget who we are and what we are doing and match out for a revolution now its the time enough is enough.
Much words devoid of wisdom. Prayer is the key when our ways are right with God, it does not, matter the no. of wicked, righteousness prevails
DeleteYou are the necessary 'virus' in the PDP abi?
ReplyDeleteMr. Chairman, does it mean only the PDP governors are loyal to the president? So, other governors from other political party are not loyal to the president? Please always think before you talk! Are you truely loyal to the president as you confess with your lips or you are protecting your source of livelihood by deceiving your paymaster?
ReplyDeleteSo Tukur is Jonathan's Shield now? Just for the sake of argument, does it mean that If Tukur drops dead now, that will be the end of Jonathan? People should not be too full of themselves!!!!!
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