Indeed, the faces of those, who will run the affairs of the party are also becoming clearer as former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was also endorsed as consensus secretaryship candidate; Dr Sam Jaja, deputy national secretaryship candidate; Mr Olisa Metu,publicity secretary; Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, organising secretary and Dr Kema Chikwe, women leader.
This is coming as North-East governors over ruled the outcome of
Tuesday’s zonal congress of the party that side-stepped Tukur and
elected Dr. Musa Babayo as zonal national chairmanship candidate. Tukur
polled two votes at the contest while Babayo had 14 votes.
The North-East governors teamed up with their colleagues from the
other zones, who, according to sources, met with the President for
several hours last night. Vanguard learnt that the meeting was still on
as of press time.
With these endorsements, other aspirants are expected to drop their
ambitions to make way for a roller-coaster convention tomorrow.
From
left, Chairman of occasion Prof. Jery Gana chatting with Former
Ministers , Mr Humphrey Abbah and FCT Engr Aba Gana during a programme
tagged;
''AN EVENING WITH BAMANGA TUKUR'' organized by Friends of Bamanga in Abuja.
Meanwhile, Tukur, has accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar
of allegedly orchestrating his defeat in order not to jeopardize his
(Atiku) presidential ambition in 2015. Tukur alleged that the former
Vice President brainwashed officials of the party in his North-East base
to go ahead and frustrate his ambition.
This is just as eleven candidates in the race for the national
chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were last night
engaged in different schemes to outwit one another as battle lines
changed among them as new alliances were formed among the candidates for
the top party job.
Why Atiku is after me
—Tukur
Tukur in a statement he issued in Abuja yesterday, entitled “Why
Atiku is after me”, alleged that the ex-VP has vowed to thwart the
ambition of anybody from Adamawa state vying for the position in view of
the fact that it would jeopardise his aim to aspire for presidency in
2015.
The statement which was signed by the legal adviser of his campaign
organization, Chief Johny Ucheaga, further accused Atiku of sponsoring
the legal action that sought to disqualify Tukur from contesting at the
National Convention of the party on Saturday on grounds that he was
earlier expelled by the National Executive Committee of the party in
2001.
The statement read in part: “The person who sued is a surrogate of
those wishing to vie for Presidential election in 2015 who believed that
Bamanga will not do their dirty bidding and would not be part of their
equation.
“The timing of the court action showed that the action is in bad
faith because Bamanga Tukur has always participated in PDP affairs over
the years without any objection.
“Bamanga Tukur was the chairman of the Campaign Council of Dr
Goodluck Jonathan. He raised the hand of Jonathan and introduced him as
PDP flag bearer in Eagle Square, Abuja without any objection.”
It further recalled a recent event in Adamawa where it said Tukur
launched the campaign for Governor Murtala Nyako’s re-election,
stressing that nobody challenged or confronted him at the period to
question the validity of his membership.
Consequently, Tukur exuded confidence that he would secure a favourable nod from the six geo-political zones on Saturday.
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