Saturday, 19 January 2013

Bamanga Tukur turns Davido; tells Governors- "PDP is bigger than 'All of You'"

The warning from Alhaji Tukur came as it emerged that the ranks of the
governors may finally have been broken by news of an alleged secret
tape recording of a meeting of the governors which was allegedly
transmitted through Tukur to the president.


The tape was allegedly the basis for the presidency's realization of
the depth of ill-feelings among the governors towards the president.
But Tukur's campquickly dismissed such speculation as nonsense.


Speaking while receiving the party's newest governor, Governor Mukhtar
Yero of Kaduna State at the PDP national secretariat yesterday, Tukur
warned the governors that power was transient.


Tukur who was himself a governor 30 years ago, spoke against the
background of the boycott of the scheduled peace meeting meant to
reconcile the governors with Tukur over the face-off that arose from
the crisis in the Adamawa State chapter of the party.


Yero who ascended to the governorshipfollowing the death of Sir
Patrick Yakowa, the immediate past governor ofKaduna State last
December, was in the party secretariat to familarise himself with the
national leadership of the party.He came along with his deputy, Nuhu
Bajoga; the acting chairman of the state chapter of the PDP, Alhaji
Isyaku Birni Gwari; business man Alhaji Sani Dauda; former Executive
Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Hamisu
Abubakar, among others.

Tukur urged the governors, other elected government functionaries and
the people to work towards ensuring that the institution of government
was made very strong and not revolve round personalities.


Tukur said: "As governors, we should all agree to move our people from
the position of want to the position of plenty through empowering them
by giving them education to defend and empower themselves. We as
leaders of your party, our job is to ensure we support all actions
being done to help the promotion and development of our people.


"For us, the party is supreme, it is neither the NWC nor the president
and the governors; let us build institutions, not personalities. It is
the institution of the party itself that is supreme because all of us
come in and go. All of us are birds of passage; we come, we go.


"But we must do our best to support institutions of governance. Once
that institution is respected, organized and committed, we can be sure
that we will be able to raise our heads high in the comity of
nations."

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