{"id":7414,"date":"2013-07-31T04:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/tukur-blasts-northern-governors-over-call-for-his-sack\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T04:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:39:41","slug":"tukur-blasts-northern-governors-over-call-for-his-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/tukur-blasts-northern-governors-over-call-for-his-sack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tukur blasts Northern governors over call for his sack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. Says Aliyu, Lamido, Kwakwaso, Wamakko, Nyako overheating the polity<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday blasted Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rabiu Kwakwaso (Kano), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) over call for his sack.<\/p>\n

Tukur said one would have expected the governors to make comments with decorum, humility and caution, as leaders whom the general public look upon as role models.<\/p>\n

He added that they were expected to show respect to constituted authority and the elders including him, for his immense contribution to the peace progress, development and advancement of the country.<\/p>\n

Tukur, in a statement made available to National Mirror<\/em> by his Special Assistant on Media, Prince Oliver Okpala, called on the governors as party faithful and responsible citizens, holding exalted positions to desist from any action that tends to overheat the polity and truncate the nation\u2019s nascent democratic structure.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere is no doubt that the governors peripatetic vision have contributed in no small measure to overheating the polity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governors are hereby advised to embrace peace and desist from dramatizing the few problems within our democracy as this can send a wrong signal to Nigerians and the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tukur said the PDP, as a political platform upon which the governors were elected, has an internal mechanism for resolution of conflicts and grievances, advising them to avail themselves elecof this mechanism before seeking audience or making public utterances capable of overheating the polity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, the PDP has a reconciliation committee entrusted with the task of conflict resolution in the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governors by their action and utterances have shown contempt to this committee by not deeming it necessary or worthy to take their grievances to the reconciliation committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne would have expected the governors to express their grievances privately to the party leadership or the reconciliation committee instead of going public with their grievances before seeking audience with other Nigerian leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four governors had visited, President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obansanjo and two former Military Heads of State, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdusalami Abubakar demanding for the removal of Tukur as condition for peace in the PDP.<\/p>\n

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