PDP Chairman Tukur Begs: "I Didn't Send My Aide To Insult Northern Governors"
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bamanga
Tukur, on Wednesday disowned a statement by his media aide in which he
lambasted the 5 pro-Governor Rotimi Amaechi northern governors whose
demands, when the met with President Goodluck Jonathan, he described as
“unguarded.”
Tukur said he never asked his spokesman, Oliver Okpala, to abuse the governors.
Tukur said he never asked his spokesman, Oliver Okpala, to abuse the governors.
According to Punch, the embattled Tukur was pressurised to repudiate his abuse of the governors.
The five governor have called for the PDP chairman’s removal as a
precondition for peace. The governors – Aliyu Babangida (Niger); Rabiu
Kwankwaso (Kano); Aliyu Wamakko(Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa); and
Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) – were said to have canvassed the removal of
Tukur as chairman during their series of meetings with ex-dictators
Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar; and ex-Presidents Shehu
Shagari and Olusegun Obasanjo.
They are said to be planning to meet other leaders like Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Chief Ernest Shonekan and Lt.-Gen. T.Y. Danjuma (retd.)
Obviously jittery Tukur, Wednesday, denied authorising Okpala’s statement and that he could not possibly abuse the governors over their “consultative efforts” to restore peace to the party.
In another statement in Abuja, Tukur, who spoke through another aide, Ahmed Gara Gombe, said he was currently in Saudi Arabia for the Lesser Hadji and that he did not approve Okpala’s statement.
If what OluFamous.Com gathered is true, Tukur might just be denying due to pressure from the Presidency as he was said to have seen and approved the statement by Okpala before he travelled to Saudi Arabia.
They are said to be planning to meet other leaders like Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Chief Ernest Shonekan and Lt.-Gen. T.Y. Danjuma (retd.)
Obviously jittery Tukur, Wednesday, denied authorising Okpala’s statement and that he could not possibly abuse the governors over their “consultative efforts” to restore peace to the party.
In another statement in Abuja, Tukur, who spoke through another aide, Ahmed Gara Gombe, said he was currently in Saudi Arabia for the Lesser Hadji and that he did not approve Okpala’s statement.
If what OluFamous.Com gathered is true, Tukur might just be denying due to pressure from the Presidency as he was said to have seen and approved the statement by Okpala before he travelled to Saudi Arabia.
