PDP NWC Emergency Meeting Holds Today, Tukur Expected To Resign

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has summoned an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, for today.

Recall that the members of the NWC had at a meeting with President Jonathan last week passed a vote of no confidence on Tukur’s leadership style and thereby called for his removal.

The agenda of the meeting was not made known but they’re suggestions that President Goodluck Jonathan, who has until now been the staying power of the embattled national chairman, has moved against Tukur.

Nine out of eleven members of the NWC present at a meeting summoned by President Jonathan had voted for him at that meeting to step down.

Party members who do not want their names mentioned say Tukur may use the opportunity of the meeting to appeal to the NWC members for reconciliation while others insisted that Tukur would use the opportunity of the meeting to resign.

During the last week meeting that passed a vote of no confidence on Tukur, members said they have lost total confidence in him and stressed that Tukur was running a one man show without carrying them along. The members accused him of turning his Wuse private residence to Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party.

Meanwhile the Adamawa state Chapter of the PDP have kicked against attempts to remove the national chairman of the party as they believe his removal will worsen the crisis in the party.