{"id":5183,"date":"2013-06-19T04:26:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/pdp-crisis-i-wont-resign-says-tukur\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T04:26:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T04:26:49","slug":"pdp-crisis-i-wont-resign-says-tukur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/pdp-crisis-i-wont-resign-says-tukur\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP crisis: I won\u2019t resign, says Tukur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Bamanga Tukur vowed yesterday to cling on to his job, amid call for his resignation.<\/p>\n

Tukur declared at the Presidential Villa in Abuja that he has no plan to quit.<\/p>\n

An ad hoc committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan and headed by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Senator Anyim Pius Anyim reportedly recommended Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) should resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cResign for what? It is not true at all. We are here to run the PDP and we have done so and we will continue to run the PDP,\u201d Tukur said after a meeting with the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have our caucus tonight (last night), we are going to have BOT tomorrow (today); we are going to have our NEC on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe chairman is not only in office; he is in power. In the PDP, there is no vacancy in the national chairmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said it was those who have not been properly elected that would resign and go seek another opportunity to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the members of the National Working Committee (NWC) were not properly elected and so it has to be regularised,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his meeting with the President, Tukur said: \u201cIt is about regularising the family of PDP because there was an observation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the election of some of the members of the NWC.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said INEC also observed that the election that brought in most members of the NWC did not follow the due process, adding that his position is not affected by the Anyim panel\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

The meeting at the Presidential Villa, which lasted for about an hour, according to Tukur, dwelt on rectifying the positions of eight members of the NWC who were not properly elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout eight people are affected. There are three people not affected. They are the National Chairman, the National Financial Secretary and the National Auditor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other eight people are all the deputies and ex officios and the rest of them whose election in the convention was not voted for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Most of the outgoing officials did not report at the party secretariat yesterday. Only the National Treasurer, Alhaji Bala Ka\u2019Oje and National Youth Leader, Alhaji Umar Chiza, made a brief appearance in their offices.<\/p>\n

The caucus meeting decided last night on a National Reconciliation Committee to be headed by the President to reconcile all aggrieved members of the party.<\/p>\n

Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio told reporters that the suspension of Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi from the party could not be lifted because the matter is in court.<\/p>\n

He also said the caucus praised the President for his mid-term report and urged governors to present reports to their people.<\/p>\n

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