Sacking me will make Jonathan vulnerable – Bamanga Tukur

Sacking me will make Jonathan
vulnerable – Bamanga Tukur
on december 16, 2013 at 11:29 am in news
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA-FOLLOWING planned moves to sack him as
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur said unequivocally
yesterday that if the governors and others succeed,
his removal will put President Goodluck Jonathan in
a vulnerable position thereby making it easy for him
to be harmed or attacked by perceived enemies,
just as he stressed that some of the governors
nursing presidential ambition would their ways.
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and President Goodluck
Jonathan
According to Tukur, he is a happy man because
President Jonathan is wiser and completely aware
of the plots of some few governors who see him as
blocking what he described as their discreet
presidential ambition.
Fighting back at the governors elected on the
platform of the party who want his removal, Tukur
who boasted that it was not a crime for him to be
loyal to President Jonathan who is the leader of
PDP, however asked if there was anything wrong in
being loyal, which explains why they want him axed
as PDP national chairman, with a shop for his
replacement.
Bamanga Tukur who spoke to Journalists through
his Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Senator
Abubakar Umar Gada Sunday said, “as far as the
national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is
concerned, the PDP governors are loyal to the
President and the national, except for a few with
hidden agenda who are nursing the plot to remove
Bamanga 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 make President Jonathan because of his loyalty.
These governors that are clamouring for the
removal of the national chairman are known with
hidden presidential ambition. The plot is remove
Tukur and make Jonathan vulnerable, because the
national chairman is blocking their political
ambition”
It will be recalled that Governors elected on the
platform of the PDP have in the past two weeks
mounted pressures for the removal of Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur, just as they resolved on Sunday
last week that Tukur must go if there must be
peace in the party.
Rising from a meeting held at the Akwa Ibom State
Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, last week, the
PDP governors after the well over three hours
meeting as gathered came to a conclusion that the
PDP national Chairman must go as the only solution
to the political logjam in the PDP against the
backdrop that since he became chairman of the
party in 2012, the party has not seen peace
because of what they termed his administrative
style which does not go in tandem with members of
the PDP.
Though Journalists were not briefed at the end of
the meeting, but Vanguard gathered that the
governors decided at the meeting that the North
East geo-political zone of the country which
produced Bamanga Tukur should immediately
search for his replacement ahead of the March
2014 mid term Special convention where Tukur will
finally leave as PDP national Chairman.
Accusing him as being a stumbling block in the
wheel of progress of the party, the PDP governors
as gathered recommended that Tukur be posted as
an ambassador to may be one of the Asia Countries.
Speaking further, Senator Gada who noted that the
PDP national chairman had kept quiet for some time
with the feeling that these governors will see
reason and stop what h termed. their negative
campaign against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, asked,
“What is the offence of the national chairman that
the governors will be asking for his removal”.
According to Senator Gada, the plot of the PDP
governors calling for the removal of Tukur did not
meet any sense against the backdrop that none of
the governors had made legitimate requests that
were not granted, adding, “Which of these
governors have asked or made a legitimate request
that the national chairman did not grant their
requests? What wrong has the national chairman
done that a few of these governors would be asking
for his head?
“The only crime that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has
committed is because he is loyal to President
Jonathan. Do the few PDP governors clamouring for
Tukur’s removal as national chairman want a
national chairman that would be disobedient to the
President?
“By setting the gimmick for the removal of Tukur as
national chairman, they are going to make the
president vulnerable and open for attacks. But we
are happy that the President is wiser and
completely aware of the plots of these few
governors, who see Tukur as blocking their discreet
presidential ambition.”