Board Of Trustees Retain Bamanga Tukur As Chairman Of Nigeria's Ruling Party PDP
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Contrary to speculations in the media about his imminent resignation or sack, the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday retained Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman of the party.
The board took this decision during the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja.
Following the sack of his deputy, Sam Jaja, and the resignation of other members of the PDP National Working Committee, political pundits had predicted that Mr. Tukur would be booted out of office if he failed to resign before the NEC meeting.
Before the meeting commenced, Mr. Tukur in an interview with local Television had insisted he would not resign from being the PDP National Chairman.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh had on Wednesday announced his resignation from membership of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party and political analysts had said they expected Mr Tukur as well as other members of the NWC to follow suit.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, a few months ago, declared that the process through which Mr. Metuh and some other members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) emerged in the party’s national convention last year was unacceptable and illegal.
The electoral umpire had condemned the exercise, noting that the process which produced 12 of the 16-member exco violated paragraph 6.5 (1) of the guidelines for the conduct of the 2012 congresses and national convention and, therefore, void.
Barring any last minute changes, the PDP has slated July 15 to hold a mini-national convention to endorse the changes in the National Working Committee (NWC) following the resignation of some of its members which was adopted by NEC in Thursday’s meeting.
Before the mini-national convention, however, the party will also hold zonal congresses on July 13 nationwide.
The purpose of the zonal congresses and mini-convention is to hold elections into positions for those 16 members of the NWC that the report of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had indicated that their election did not meet the PDP election guidelines.
Following the sack of his deputy, Sam Jaja, and the resignation of other members of the PDP National Working Committee, political pundits had predicted that Mr. Tukur would be booted out of office if he failed to resign before the NEC meeting.
Before the meeting commenced, Mr. Tukur in an interview with local Television had insisted he would not resign from being the PDP National Chairman.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh had on Wednesday announced his resignation from membership of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party and political analysts had said they expected Mr Tukur as well as other members of the NWC to follow suit.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, a few months ago, declared that the process through which Mr. Metuh and some other members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) emerged in the party’s national convention last year was unacceptable and illegal.
The electoral umpire had condemned the exercise, noting that the process which produced 12 of the 16-member exco violated paragraph 6.5 (1) of the guidelines for the conduct of the 2012 congresses and national convention and, therefore, void.
Barring any last minute changes, the PDP has slated July 15 to hold a mini-national convention to endorse the changes in the National Working Committee (NWC) following the resignation of some of its members which was adopted by NEC in Thursday’s meeting.
Before the mini-national convention, however, the party will also hold zonal congresses on July 13 nationwide.
The purpose of the zonal congresses and mini-convention is to hold elections into positions for those 16 members of the NWC that the report of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had indicated that their election did not meet the PDP election guidelines.
