Following reports on Monday that President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the embattled National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, to resign from his exalted position, the party boss has maintained that he won’t step down except through a properly organised convention, which brought him into power.
He insisted that nobody, not even the President can force him to leave office. “Not even the President can ask me to resign,” Tukur emphatically said in a statement he personally signed on Monday.
The National Executive Council, NEC, of the PDP will meet on Thursday in Abuja, and top on the agenda will be on Tukur’s stay in office, which has divided the party.
In the three paragraph statement Tukur said his appointment was “properly convened by a convention and nothing less is expected [to remove him]. I am an elected national chairman [of the PDP and] I have my certificate of return.”
He declared that, “I cannot resign. The convention brought me, so it has to take the convention that brought me in for me to resign.”
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