PDP suspendsTukur osundefender.org/?p=198177 ABUJA—THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has suspended its former National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, for dragging the party and its current chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu to court. The decision to suspend Tukur from the party was taken by the party’s leadership at the meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, held yesterday. Tukur was elected the PDP National Chairman in March, 2012 and resigned in January this year to give way for Adamu Muazu to become the national chairman. Muazu’s chairmanship which was approved at the National Executive Committee, NEC meeting, would be ratified next week at the party’s national convention. He was appointed the chairman, board of the Nigeria Railways Corpiration, NRC, and following his resignation as PDP national chairman and President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him an ambassador at large. In a statement by PDP National Legal Adviser, Barr. Victor Kwon, the PDP said yesterday, “the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at its 395th meeting reviewed recent national developments as they affect the party. Among others, the NWC deliberated on the court case instituted against the National Chairman of the Party, Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu by the former National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. “The NWC reasoned that for instituting a claim and counter claim in suit FHC/ABJ /821/2014; Gurin vs PDP & 3 others without first exploring and exhausting the party’s internal mechanism of redress and for attempting to stop the forthcoming national convention to nominate the party’s presidential candidate as well as regularize the position of the national chairman and other members of the National Working Committee is unacceptable. The NWC hereby suspends Dr. Bamanga Tukur and Aliyu Abuba Gurin for one month and refers them to the National Disciplinary Committee for infringing on section 58(1)(a)( b)( h)( l) of the PDP Constitution 2012 (as amended).” Earlier Tukur had denied knowledge of the case that he dragged the party and Muazu to court, with the hope of taking over from the national chairman, where he was said not to have resigned properly. A statement by his spokesperson, Oliver Okpala, read, “It has come to the notice of the Special Assistant on Media to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the mis-representation of facts bothering on the case instituted against the National Chairman of PDP and three others by a member of the Party, Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin. It must be put forward in its proper legal and historical perspective that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur never initiated or filed any case against Alhaji Adamu Muazu contrary to reports making headlines in National Dailies and waves in social media. Distortion of facts “The wrongful report and misrepresentation of facts to the effect that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur filed a case urging the court to oust Alhaji Adamu Muazu out of office as National Chairman of the PDP is not only untrue but gross distortion of facts relating to the case instituted and filed by Alhaji Aliyu Gurin. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was joined in the suit as a co-defendant in the suit and as is required in law filed his own counter affidavits stating his own side of the case in relation to the suit filed by the plaintiff, Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin. “A co-defendant in a case cannot by any imagination in law be deemed as a plantiff who initiated and filed a suit before a law court. Let it be also noted that at no time did Alhaji Bamanga Tukur react to the Court judgement and did not inform any reporter or journalist as being erroneously reported that he “has vowed to challenge the judgement at the Court of Appeal. The important legal argument hereinafter is how can a co-defendant who was also sued in a case by the plaintiff vow to challenge the judgement of a case he did not institute on appeal. For avoidance of doubt, this case was instituted by Alhaji Aliyu Buba Gurin a PDP member against PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and INEc as 1-4 defendants.”
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:17:33 +0000