The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has refused to toe the line of the state chapter of the party which quickly congratulated the group of 5 lawmakers after their claims to have impeached the speaker of the Rivers state assembly came into the open. Instead, Tukur condemned the fracas in the Rivers State House of Assembly, saying that although the lawmakers had the right to air their opinions, it must be within the the confines of the constitution as deliberate moves to breach public peace won’t be tolerated in the party.
The 5 anti-Amaechi lawmakers had gone ahead to conduct an impeachment sitting with neither the numbers required for a sitting nor for an impeachment.
Tukur however said that it was unavoidable that issues like lawmakers quarrelling would happen in a big party like the PDP.
“PDP is a family where big things are happening. The party is so large that a lot of things happen in it including the good, the bad and the ugly,” he said.
According to him, the party will not hesitate to invoke disciplinary measures against any of its members who aids and abets gross indiscipline, pledging that it would investigate the immediate and remote causes of the mayhem in order to find a lasting solution to it.
He also repeated the refrain that neither the presidency nor the party leadership was behind the crisis as being speculated by the enemies of the party.
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