I Will Not Resign On Thursday - Tukur

Culled from ChannelsTV
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur, on Tuesday said he would not resign on Thursday as published by a local newspaper.Addressing journalists after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Mr Tukur said elections would be held for the positions, not contested for, during the last national executive council meeting.



 He dismissed as untrue and complete falsehood stories that President Jonathan had directed the
 leadership of the party to resign or be prepared to be booted out by Thursday. A Nigerian newspaper had on Monday reported that Mr Tukur would be succeeded by former Bauchi State governor, Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu. According to the report, Mr. Tukur’s resignation is coming on the heels of the report of the Anyim Pius Anyim Committee set up by President Jonathan, recommending the resignation of the NWC members in line with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) report which termed as void the process through which the NWC members emerged.

INEC had, a few months ago, declared that the process through which some of the members of the PDP NWC emerged in the party’s national convention last year was unacceptable and illegal. The electoral umpire had condemned the exercise, noting that the process which produced 12 of the 16-member exco violated paragraph 6.5 (1) of the guidelines for the conduct of the 2012 congresses and national convention and, therefore, void.

The commission had listed the national officers of the party whose election violated the stipulated provision to include: deputy national chairman, Sam Sam Jaja, national organising secretary, Abubakar Mustapha, his deputy Okechukwu Nnadozie, national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, his deputy Binta Goje, national youth leader Garba Chiza, his deputy Dennis Alonge Niyi, deputy national auditor, Umar Ibrahim, national women leader, Kema Chikwe, her deputy, Hannatu Ulam, deputy national treasurer, Claudus Inengas and national legal adviser, Victor Kwon.

According to INEC’s acting director, legal, Ibrahim Bawa, “The mode of election adopted for single candidates was not in accordance with the mode of election stipulated in paragraph 6.5 (i) of the guidelines for the conduct of the year 2012 congresses and national convention and, therefore, not acceptable to the commission.”