PDP to Fire Chairman Bamangar Tukur, NWC Members
On a day in which he ate his words and recalled a governor he suspended only days ago, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Bamanga Tukur may learn he is himself to be consumed by the rampaging beast.
Today
is had been revealed that a high-powered committee, led by the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Anyim Pius Anyim, set
up to look into the crisis in the party, has recommended that Alhaji
Tukur and all National Working Committee (NWC) members should resign
their positions on Thursday.
The NWC consists of Tukur, spokesman Olisa Metuh, others handpicked by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The
Anyim committee comprises of Special Adviser on Political Matters to
the President, Mr. Ahmed Gulak,
Governor of Akwa Ibom State Goodwill
Akpabio, Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema, Benue State Governor,
Abia State Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji and other Jonathan
loyalists.
Earlier today, Mr. Tukur announced a meeting of the NWC for that day.
The
Anyim committee met for six hours at the Legacy House headquarters of
the party and resolved that members of the NWC, including Mr. Tukur,
should resign in order to save face, having reached the conclusion that
Tukur has run the PDP into the ground.
As
of the time of this report all the members have moved to the Aso Rock
villa to meet with President Jonathan to determine whether their
removals will be finalized.
The
source also said that Chairman Tukur might be replaced with former
governor of Bauchi state, Alhaji Muazu, or Shehu Babayo, a politician
also from Bauchi State.