14 PDP Governors Ask Bamanga Tukur To Go

It has emerged that the embattled national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, may be on his way out as governors elected on the party’s platform last night asked the north-east caucus of the party to shop for an immediate replacement.

This was part of the resolutions reached at the meeting of the governors at the Akwa Ibom Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro and the position was to be presented to President Goodluck Jonathan as the governors headed straight for the presidential villa for another round of meeting on how to resolve the lingering crisis in the party. The meeting between the PDP governors and the president would set in motion machinery to elect a new national chairman from the North-east geo- political zone.

The meeting, which was attended by 14 governors, ended about 9:40pm without the usual press briefing.

At the meeting were the governors of Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta, Katsina, Kaduna, Kogi, Kebbi, Bauchi, Cross River, Plateau, Akwa Ibom, Taraba, and Niger who was represented by his deputy.