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The Kawu Baraje faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, New PDP, on Sunday, demanded the immediate resignation of the National Chairman of the ruling party, Bamanga Tukur, saying he ceased to be its member seven years ago.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, the New PDP alleged that Tukur was expelled from the party since 2006 alongside nine others following disciplinary action taken against them for anti-party conducts and therefore should hand over to Mr. Baraje.
A statement released by the New PDP said, "The Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party wishes to demand the immediate resignation of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, as he is not a registered and card-carrying member of the party and so has no business being its national chairman".
"Alhaji Tukur was expelled from the PDP in 2006 with nine others as a result following disciplinary action taken against them for anti-party activities. Since then, he has not officially returned to the party.
"All the records at our disposal show that Alhaji Tukur has not followed due process for his readmission into the party.
"He neither apply for, nor obtained the requisite waiver by the National Executive Committee of the party before offering himself for election into the office of National Chairman in 2012.
"This makes his membership incurably defective and his emergence as PDP’s National Chairman null and void and of no effect, whatsoever since he is the product of a flawed process.
"Consequently, all the actions he has taken as the Chairman of PDP since his purported election in March 2012, including the convention of August 2013, are null and void, and of no effect.”
The faction added that information available to it revealed that Mr Tukur was desperately seeking a way out of his predicament and had set about falsifying party records with regard to revalidating his membership through the back door.
"We wish to put him on notice that this is criminal and we hope he understands the consequences of his actions. In this regard, Alhaji Tukur’s continued occupation of the Office of PDP National Chairman is clearly fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional,” it stressed.
"We hereby urge Alhaji Tukur to tow the path of honour and throw in the towel. This is the best option open to him.
"However, since one man cannot hold the party and the entire nation hostage, should he fail to heed our advice, we would have no other option than to appeal to both the Presidency and the PDP leadership to ease him of the party in the most diplomatic way to avoid hurting him so much considering his age, zeal and commitment to serve the party by offering a Ministerial post to him.
"This is a good opportunity for the Presidency to demonstrate if it is serious about restoring peace and unity to the party", the statement concluded.