Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, National Chairman of the PDP, emerged from a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, and announced that he does not intend to resign from his position.
Yesterday, section of the media was awash with report that a committee led by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, had recommended his resignation.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) also observed that elections of two-third of members of the NWC did not follow due process.
Addressing newsmen at the end of the parley between President Jonathan and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, he stated that his office was not affected by the report.
He said: “It is not true that I am resigning. Resign 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.”
“We are going to have our caucus tonight, we are going to have BOT tomorrow, we are going to have our NEC on Thursday.”
“It is not true chairman is there dam dam. The chairman is not only in office, he is in power. In PDP, there is no vacancy in the national chairmanship.”
Continuing he said, “The meeting is about regularising the family of PDP because there was INEC observation, some of the members of the NWC we not properly elected so it has to be regularized.”
“Those who have not been elected will resign and they will go back, they will have opportunity to regularize.”
“About eight people are affected. There are three people that are not affected, they the National Chairman, the National Financial Secretary, National Auditor and of course National Secretary which is vacant now.”
“The other eight people, all the deputies, and ex-officios and the rest of them whose election in the convention was not voted for.” He noted
