Only the National convention can remove me - Tukur

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, brushed aside a revolt by the National Working Committee, NWC, members of the party and insisted that only the National Convention of the party can remove him from office.
Tukur said that based on the constitution of the party not even the president could remove him from offfice.
Tukur spoke after majority of the NWC members he summoned for an emergency meeting at the National Secretariat of the party staged a dramatic boycott of the meeting.
The NWC members shunned the chairman against the backdrop of claim that they had lost total confidence on him and would not sit face-to-face with him again.

Tukur however, told newsmen that there was no basis for him to resign as no one has successfully proved any allegation of wrong doing against him.
He also dismissed the allegation that he had been asked to resign by the President, accusing the opposition of peddling rumour to cause disharmony in the party.
According to him, the National Chairman of the party can only be removed by a Convention and not by any other organ.
However, the botched NWC meeting, Vanguard gathered was aimed at resolving the lingering political crisis in the party that led some members of NWC to report Tukur to the leader of the party, President Goodluck Jonathan.
The NWC members told Jonathan that they had lost confidence in Tukur’s leadership, calling for his removal.
Tukur was to use yesterday’s meeting to appeal to members of NWC for forgiveness with a promise to turn a new leaf


Source: Vanguard