You’re Free To Leave PDP, Tukur Tells Wamakko
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National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji. Bamanga Tukur, says Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State would only be exercising his constitutional right if he opted to leave the party.
This is even as the Anyim Pius Anyim-led panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan on the PDP crisis postponed its meeting to Saturday.
LEADERSHIP Friday learnt last night that the meeting was postponed to ensure that all the members which include six governors to be in attendance.
Meanwhile the national chairman of PDP said that so long as the Sokoto governor remained in the party, he would be bound by the party’s statutes as regards rules and regulations.
On his return from a trip abroad yeaterday, Wamakko, obviously vexed with his suspension from the party, called for Tukur’s sack as chairman. The Sokoto governor accused Tukur of running the PDP like a private estate.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Media, Prince Oliver Okpala, Tukur said, “If he has any agenda to leave the PDP, it is within his constitutional right and he is free, but as long as he remains within the PDP, he must align himself with discipline.
“He should not stay in the party and be encouraging insubordination and indiscipline. The leadership of the party under Tukur has regards for party discipline and will never waver.
“Therefore, for him to say Tukur is a political prostitute, does that portray him as a true son? He should express a true sense of respect and discipline because of his position as a governor,” Okpala said.
While condemning the use of insults on the chairman, Okpala said all party fateful must respect constituted party authorities, adding that even the Speaker of the House of Representatives must toe the line of political discipline and comportment.
“When he insults an elderly man like Tukur because he is a governor, then we don’t think he has the moral fibre to remain in office because as a governor he should live by example.
