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       TUKUR RESIGNS •Submitted letter to president at 5.30pm •Transpor
       t Minister, two others in contention
       By: SmartKid Date: January 16, 2014, 2:18 pm
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       Indications emerged on Wednesday that the
       embattled National Chairman of the Peoples
       Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga
       Tukur, tendered his resignation following
       the request from the National Caucus which
       met twice in the last two days.
       Tukur was reported to have submitted his
       resignation letter to the president even
       though as at the time of filling this report,
       there has been no official confirmation of
       his resignation either from the party
       secretariat or the presidency.
       Tukur’s Special Assistant on Media, Prince
       Oliver Okpala however sent text messages
       round denying the resignation report,
       announcing that his boss would attend the
       meetings of Board of Trustees and National
       Caucus.
       Impeccable administration and party
       sources insisted that the resignation letter
       was already with the president even though
       Tukur might still attend meetings slated for
       Wednesday night.
       Meanwhile, Acting Chairman of the party is
       to emerge today at the party’s National
       Executive Council (NEC) meeting, contrary to
       original expectation that the present deputy
       chairman of the party, Uche Secondus,
       would take over as acting chairman until a
       convention in the next three months.
       It was learnt that the decision to allow
       Secondus to remain as deputy chairman,
       rather than the acting chairman, was taken
       to avoid a situation in which the leadership
       of the party would be labelled southern
       dominated.
       Insiders sources, however, hinted that the
       letter was not submitted to the party but to
       the president, whose body language had
       reportedly confirmed his decision to allow
       Tukur to resign.
       The signal that the end had come for the
       chairman came when at the caucus meeting
       of Tuesday night, the president chaired the
       session rather than the chairman as
       prescribed by the party’s constitution.
       According to the party constitution, the
       chairman is expected to preside over the
       national caucus meeting even when the
       president is present.
       Members of the caucus include the
       president, vice-president, principal officers
       from the National Assembly, six state
       governors, chairman and secretary of Board
       of Trustees, deputy national chairman, three
       ministers, National Security Adviser,
       Secretary to the Government of the
       Federation, National Deputy Chairman, the
       Legal Adviser, Youth Leader and Woman
       Leader.
       Nigerian Tribune was told that the national
       caucus of the party turned against Tukur at
       their meeting on Tuesday night with reports
       that all those who spoke counselled the
       chairman to resign as a way of saving the
       party from internal bleeding.
       Insiders at the meeting disclosed that the
       caucus members had confronted the
       chairman with many organs of the party
       that had turned against him, starting from
       the National Working Committee to the
       party’s Governors’ Forum.
       It was said that while the discussions were
       still on, a copy of the resolution signed by 30
       out of the 37 states chairmen calling for
       Tukur’s removal was brought into the
       meeting.
       The resolution was reported to have
       boosted speakers who had counselled the
       chairman to resign. The meeting reached a
       climax when the state chairman’s letter was
       served on those present with the report
       indicating that even the party chairman was
       shocked.
       The resolution was reported to have led to a
       question put to the chairman to respond to
       the advice given him to resign as a way of
       saving the party. Alhaji Tukur was quoted as
       offering no detailed explanation than asking
       that he be given time to review and take a
       decision on the request.
       It was said that it was at this point that the
       meeting was adjourned till Wednesday
       afternoon, where the chairman would now
       declare his position on the resignation
       request.
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