PDP Crisis: Bowing To Tukur Is Political Suicide –Nyako
The Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako, may not be in a hurry to reconcile with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as he is determined to fight on until the perceived injustice meted at him is redressed. Speaking with the Saturday Mirror yesterday through a telephone interview, an aide of the governor who will not want his name in print said that surrendering to the national leadership of the party would amount to political suicide as the governor would have lost the grip of a structure he is meant to be the leader.
According to him, “how do you expect the governor to be part of the trip to Tukur’s house when in the actual sense, their cases are different. My boss shares with the agitations of the other northern governors but beyond that, we have the unresolved issue of who is the leader of the party in Adamawa, who is in control of the party structure.
“You can’t be a governor and you do not have a control of the party in government. It is unthinkable and until this matter is resolved, we will not accept the reconciliation efforts of the party. “I believe every party leader wants peace in the party, I also believe that even the leadership including the presidency are desirous of peace but every reconciliation must be anchored on the plank of honesty and fairness. We demand for nothing less than that and until the structure is restored to the leader of the party in the state, I can’t assure you that we will go very far in the peace initiatives, but we believe in reconciliation.”
On Thursday, three out of five northern governors who have been aggrieved over the leadership style of Dr. Tukur resolved to discontinue with their agitations against the party and pledged their loyalty to leadership of the party. The three governors, Rabiu Kwankwaso, (Kano), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), and Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto) who had a close door meeting with Dr. Tukur, at his residence that lasted several hour also apologised on behalf of the other governors notably, Murtala Nyako, (Adamawa) and Babangida Aliyu (Niger State) for their inability to be part of the meeting.
The governors said that they had returned to the leadership of the party and that all that happened in the past which involved grievances, accusations and counter accusations were done because of gap in communication amidst disinformation from some quarters between them and the leadership of the party.
They said that having listened to the national chairman, “we are now properly informed about the happening in the party and promised that henceforth, we will work in harmony and unity with the leadership of the party and we also pledged our loyalty to the leadership of the party under Dr. Bamanga Tukur.” National chairman of the party, after listening to them, also promised as a father to forgive and forget all that had happened in the past.
He assured of the leadership of the party to work together with the governors stressing that any member of the party that felt aggrieved over any activity of the party should utilise all the internal mechanisms and platforms set out by the party to reconcile aggrieved members under the cardinal three Rs which is Reconciliation, Reformation and Rebuilding. Recall that Tukur and Nyako had been enmeshed in supremacy battle over the control of Adamawa State in the party.
While the present leadership of the party in the state is loyal to the national chairman, after the previous executive that is loyal to Nyako was dissolved, the governor is insisting that the former executive must be returned to their offices pending the expiration of their tenure.
