Northern youths demand Tukur’s removal
JUNE 19, 2013
PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur
Irked by the suspension order slammed on the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Governor Aliyu Wamakko, northern youths on Tuesday called for the removal of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. They also called for the dissolution of the National Working Committee of the party .
The youths, under the aegis of the Arewa Integrity Group and the Wamakko/Amaechi National Enlightment Council, said even though Wamakko’s suspension had been quashed by the party, the leadership of the party and the NWC of the party must write a letter of apology to the people of the state for the embarrassment caused by the suspension of the governor.
At a joint press conference on Tuesday in Kaduna, AIG’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Ladan, insisted that if the party wanted to remain in power in 2015, Amaechi, who was described as the authentic Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, must be recalled with immediate effect into the party.
According to him, Tukur was responsible for the alleged crisis in the party as well as the suspension of some of the party members.
The AIG leader threatened that after seven days, if the suspension on Amaechi was not lifted, the group would occupy all the zonal offices of the party in the North. The group said Tukur had been a curse rather than a blessing to the party alleging that the PDP chairman had almost succeeded in destroying the party.
Ladan said, “The National Chairman of the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, should be removed because he is causing a lot of crisis in the party. We are here to organise our party. So, Tukur must go. How can he lift the suspension of Wamakko without also lifting that of Amaechi of Rivers State?
“We feel the national leadership of PDP has no party’s constitutional powers to suspend a party leader in his state without recourse to a complaint or allegation from his ward executives, local government party Excos, states zonal party Exco and national zonal Exco. There was no corresponding complain through these offices of malpractices or violation of party constitution or any anti-party activities against this humble governors from their various states executive or members of our great party.
“Based on the aforementioned and many more, the national chairman of PDP and his cohorts have no legal or moral right to suspend our leaders, who are believed to have taken the party to greater heights in their respective states.”
“We urge the entire leadership, from the zonal to the national headquarters to reverse the suspension of Amaechi within seven days or else a mass protest will peacefully take place in all national zonal offices and the national headquarters, Abuja.”
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