Bamanga Tukur will go with Onyinola, PDP Govs tell PDP Chairman
Following the sack yesterday of the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Abdu Kafarati a fresh row has sparked off in the ruling party.
In the renewed power play between the governors elected under the PDP platform and the presidency over the leadership of the party, the state chief executive officers allegedly demanded that Oyinlola would only leave if the party’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, quits his office.
The presidency had waded into the crisis rocking the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP following the decision of 10 members of the NWC to rescind the dissolution of the Mijinyawa Kaugama-led Adamawa State chapter of the PDP without the consent of Alhaji Tukur, who had described the act as a betrayal of trust.
President Jonathan, in a bid to resolve the crisis, immediately summoned party bigwigs, governors and the NWC members to the Presidential Villa where a truce was brokered and a vote of confidence passed on Tukur’s leadership of the party.
However, following the sack of Oyinlola, the PDP governors met last night and resolved to go back to their earlier stand that Tukur must leave the party’s leadership. The meeting, according to a source, lasted over three hours.
It has been gathered that the governors would meet with President Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on the matter tomorrow.
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