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 to 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.”
Culled from Punch online news.
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