PDP Crisis: Sheriff meets ex-Chair Bamanga Tukur

Abuja—Chairman of a faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and a former chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday met behind closed doors to discuss the leadership crisis in the party.Though none of the leaders of the party was ready to speak on the reason for their meeting, both leaders said the interest of the party was the reason for their meeting.

Bamanga Tukur, who spoke briefly with journalists after the meeting, said Sheriff came to visit him as an elder statesman and leader of the party.

“To me, it is my son here to salute me. I am an elder statesman, I am for everybody, I am not partisan now. I said so when I reached 80 years.

‘’I am waiting for him to come and see me and he is in the party which I belong and one of which I formed, so it is good.’’

Speaking on the crisis in the party, Tukur said the solution laid in the party being returned to the people who remained its owners.

“The PDP, forever, will be, because if they follow the philosophy that established PDP, it will be great. what is our slogan? Power to the people, will it change? If democracy is about the people, however, you look at it, it is power of the people; it is the approach,” he said.

He dismissed the idea of mega party as mere talk, saying “it is democracy, people can say what they like but what they get is different.”





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