Browsing: Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

When reminded that the leadership of the new PDP had requested that President Goodluck Jonathan postpones the meeting because most of the governors will be in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj, Gulak said he was not aware of such request

In a statement on Wednesday, the Baraje faction accused the Tukur faction of unilaterally setting up a caretaker committee for the Kano State chapter of the party

For about 30 minutes, pro-Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and pro-Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje members of the House elected on the platform of the PDP engaged in fisticuffs

The court also held that it did not notice any negligence on the part of the Baraje faction in filing its processes and entering an appearance against the position of the Tukur side

In a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the Baraje faction said by accusing Obasanjo of being behind the decision of the faction to stage a walkout at the Special National Convention of the party in Abuja, Tukur was trying to smear the international reputation of the former president

“Before now, those six governors had been going from one place to another in their personal interests

Those absent included former President Olusegun Obasanjo; the President of the Senate, David Mark; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal

The meeting, which had in attendance governors loyal to Jonathan, some governors elected on the platform of the PDP but who are now with the Baraje-led faction and some members of the National Executive Committee of the party under the leadership of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was said to have been tense because of the positions taken by Babangida and Obasanjo

It was learnt that the party is to honour the Tukur-led executives elected at the Special National Convention of the PDP at the Eagle Square, Abuja

Metuh said Chukwu, by the ruling, ordered that the faction led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje should not be in operation and should not be recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission

The statement wondered why Tukur, who appeared before the party’s elders on Friday ostensibly in search of peace, could, in less than 12 hours, start another round of acts of impunity.

This was the position of Justice E. S. Chukwu on Friday when he delivered a ruling in a suit brought by Tukur before the Federal High Court, Abuja

Tukur had on Wednesday threatened to arrest members of Baraje’s faction who parade themselves as National Executive Committee members

Tukur, who addressed a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, while taking on the faction of the PDP under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje as National Chairman, said anyone elected on the platform of the party who recognizes any other leadership apart from his would also be removed from his seat

A source, however, told The Eagle Online that it was possible the meeting was cancelled because some of the governors who have aligned with the PDP faction headed by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, have decided to boycott the meeting

Tukur said this when he received the report of the party’s primaries from the Chairman of the five-man panel for the Anambra State electoral congress, Governor Ibrahim Shema of Kastina State

He said the NWC members met with President Jonathan to discuss the observation raised by the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC) regarding the need to regularize the elections of some of the national officers

In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN however expressed its happiness that Tukur has finally come to terms with what the ACN and others have been saying for a long time that the PDP lacks the wherewithal to preside over a country that is hungry for security and development like Nigeria