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More facts have emerged on the sudden exit of tough-talking Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Impeccable sources within the PDP and the presidency told LEADERSHIP Weekend that President Goodluck Jonathan forced Tukur to tender his resignation letter following Tukur’s assertion that the president could not force him to leave office.
Although Jonathan allegedly asked Tukur to make the sacrifice to protect the ruling PDP and the office of the president, our correspondent learnt that Tukur’s statement angered the presidency.
President Jonathan had presented Tukur’s resignation letter to the 63rd meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party on Thursday, a few hours after Tukur had boasted that no one, including the president, could force him out of office.
The Presidency and PDP sources said that it was the statement that eventually consumed Tukur as he was immediately invited to meet with the president and a few top political associates such as the chairman of PDP Board of Trustees Chief Tony Anenih, Vice President Namadi Sambo and a few aides where he was confronted with the statement. He answered in the affirmative and this led the president to ask him to resign in order to save the office of the president and the party.
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Source: Leadership Newspaper Nigeria
Although Jonathan allegedly asked Tukur to make the sacrifice to protect the ruling PDP and the office of the president, our correspondent learnt that Tukur’s statement angered the presidency.
President Jonathan had presented Tukur’s resignation letter to the 63rd meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party on Thursday, a few hours after Tukur had boasted that no one, including the president, could force him out of office.
The Presidency and PDP sources said that it was the statement that eventually consumed Tukur as he was immediately invited to meet with the president and a few top political associates such as the chairman of PDP Board of Trustees Chief Tony Anenih, Vice President Namadi Sambo and a few aides where he was confronted with the statement. He answered in the affirmative and this led the president to ask him to resign in order to save the office of the president and the party.
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Source: Leadership Newspaper Nigeria