Former PDP Chairman Suspended

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Former national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been suspended for one month by the National Working Committee of the party.
According to a press statement released on Thursday in Abuja and signed by the National Legal Adviser of the party, Barrister Victor Kwon, the decision to suspend Tukur was taken by the NWC at a meeting held in Abuja on Thursday. 

The meeting was presided over by the embattled Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

It was disclosed that the former chairman was suspended for daring to return to his position as the national chairman of the PDP.  

The 395th meeting of the ruling party was to deliberate on recent national developments as they affect the party and the court case instituted against the National Chairman of the Party, Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu by Tukur. 

After hours of deliberation, it was gathered that the NWC decided to suspend Tukur and an aspirant to the House of Representatives in Adamawa State, Aliyu Abuba Gurin for one month and referred them to the National Disciplinary Committee for infringing on section 58(1)(a)( b)( h)( l) of the PDP Constitution 2012( as amended). 

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.

It would be recalled that a suit filed by Tukur seeking the removal of Mu’azu was dismissed by the Federal High Court in Abuja last week.

Justice Evoh Chukwu who is the trial judge dismissed the case after hearing arguments by parties on Tuesday morning. Tukur had told the court that he was forced to resign his position as the national chairman of the party.